Replication data for: Government Old-Age Support and Labor Supply: Evidence from the Old Age Assistance Program

Principal Investigator(s): View help for Principal Investigator(s) Daniel K. Fetter; Lee M. Lockwood

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Project Description

Summary: Many government programs transfer resources to older people and implicitly or explicitly tax their labor. We shed new light on the labor supply and welfare effects of such programs by investigating the Old Age Assistance Program (OAA). Exploiting the large differences in OAA programs across states and Census data on the entire US population in 1940, we find that OAA reduced the labor force participation rate among men aged 65-74 by 8.5 percentage points, more than one-half of its 1930-1940 decline, but that OAA's implicit taxation of earnings imposed only small welfare costs on recipients.

Scope of Project

JEL Classification:
      H24 Personal Income and Other Nonbusiness Taxes and Subsidies; includes inheritance and gift taxes
      H55 Social Security and Public Pensions
      H75 State and Local Government: Health; Education; Welfare; Public Pensions
      J14 Economics of the Elderly; Economics of the Handicapped; Non-labor Market Discrimination
      J22 Time Allocation and Labor Supply

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