TY - JOUR
T1 - The relation between public assistance and self-employment in census tracts
T2 - a long-term perspective
AU - Patel, Pankaj C.
AU - Rietveld, CA (Niels)
AU - Pereira, Igor
N1 - JEL codes: H5 · L26 · R13
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© 2021, The Author(s).
PY - 2021/10/15
Y1 - 2021/10/15
N2 - We present evidence on the long-term relationship between the breadth (the proportion of households) and depth (the amount per household) of public assistance and the prevalence of self-employment in US neighbourhoods. The analysis of decennial data of 71,437 census tracts over four decades (1970 to 2000) shows that the poverty ratio lowers self-employment, and that breadth (but not depth) of public assistance mitigates the negative relationship between the poverty ratio and self-employment. The results are robust to alternate model specifications and are informative about the distributional effects of welfare spendings.
AB - We present evidence on the long-term relationship between the breadth (the proportion of households) and depth (the amount per household) of public assistance and the prevalence of self-employment in US neighbourhoods. The analysis of decennial data of 71,437 census tracts over four decades (1970 to 2000) shows that the poverty ratio lowers self-employment, and that breadth (but not depth) of public assistance mitigates the negative relationship between the poverty ratio and self-employment. The results are robust to alternate model specifications and are informative about the distributional effects of welfare spendings.
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U2 - 10.1007/s00191-021-00746-3
DO - 10.1007/s00191-021-00746-3
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85117083358
SN - 0936-9937
JO - Journal of Evolutionary Economics
JF - Journal of Evolutionary Economics
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