Means-Tested Transfer Programs in the United States

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Work Incentives and the Food Stamp Program (2012, unknown): “Instead, the typical food stamp study in some way compares recipients to nonrecipients leading to a possible bias if there is selection into program participation (Currie 2003).”
Maternal Labor Supply and the Introduction of Kindergartens into American Public Schools (2012, background): “In the 1960s, cash welfare was much less generous than it would later become and remain through the 1990s (Moffitt 2003).”
Using Discontinuous Eligibility Rules to Identify the Effects of the Federal Medicaid Expansions on Low-Income Children (2004, background): “Figure 2 shows 10 There was a similar rise in the takeup rate of other benefit programs in the early 1990s, including food stamps—see Currie (2003).”
A Unified Welfare Analysis of Government Policies* (2019, unknown): “…Benefit Generosity) AFDC Generosity 1990 30 x x x Ackerman et al. (2009) Hotz and Scholz (2003) Meyer and Rosenbaum (2001) Currie and Cole (1993) Moffitt (2003) Aid to Families with Dependent Children (Term Limit Modifications) AFDC Term Limits 1996 27 x x x Grogger (2003) Pavetti (1995) Alaska…”