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Rob Hartley

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Columbia University · Columbia School of Social Work

Active 1962–2025

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Citations86
Papers228 last 5y
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Research topics

  • Economics
  • Public economics
  • Labour economics
  • Political science
  • Econometrics

Selected publications

  • Welfare Reform and the Intergenerational Transmission of Dependence

    Journal of Political Economy · 2021-10-28 · 42 citations

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    We investigate the effect of welfare reform on intergenerational welfare participation, using mother-daughter pairs in the Panel Study of Income Dynamics. We find that a mother’s Aid to Families with Dependent Children/Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (AFDC/TANF) participation increased her daughter’s odds of adult participation in that program by roughly 25 percentage points or more, but that welfare reform attenuated this transmission by at least 50%. However, there is no diminution of…

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  • Welfare Reform and the Intergenerational Transmission of Dependence

    SSRN Electronic Journal · 2017-01-01 · 35 citations

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  • The Benefits and Costs of a U.S. Child Allowance

    SSRN Electronic Journal · 2022-01-01 · 20 citations

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  • The Benefits and Costs of a Child Allowance

    Journal of Benefit-Cost Analysis · 2022-01-01 · 16 citations

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    Abstract This article conducts a benefit-cost analysis of a child allowance. Through a systematic literature review of the highest quality evidence on the causal effects of cash and near-cash transfers, this article produces core estimates on the benefits and costs per child and per adult of increasing household income by $1000, which can be used for any cash or near-cash program that increases household income. We then apply these estimates to three child allowance proposals, with the main prop…

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  • The Benefits and Costs of a U.S. Child Allowance

    National Bureau of Economic Research · 2022-03-01 · 10 citations

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Frequent coauthors

  • Carlos Lamarche

    University of Kentucky

    11 shared

  • James P. Ziliak

    6 shared

  • Irwin Garfinkel

    5 shared

  • Christopher Wimer

    Columbia University

    4 shared

  • Elizabeth Ananat

    4 shared

  • Sophie Collyer

    Columbia University

    3 shared

  • Buyi Wang

    Columbia University

    2 shared

  • Laurel Sariscsany

    Abbott (United States)

    2 shared

Education

  • PhD, Department of Economics

    University of Kentucky

    2017

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