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Tasik, Hizkia Hendrick David.

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Essays on information asymmetry and welfare benefit.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Essays on information asymmetry and welfare benefit./
Author:	Tasik, Hizkia Hendrick David.
Published:	Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, : 2015,
Description:	122 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 77-06(E), Section: A.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International77-06A(E).
Subject:	Economics. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=10000319
ISBN:	9781339408125

Essays on information asymmetry and welfare benefit.
Tasik, Hizkia Hendrick David.

Essays on information asymmetry and welfare benefit. - Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 2015 - 122 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 77-06(E), Section: A.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Georgia State University, 2015.

This dissertation explores the information asymmetry problem between government and applicants of means-tested welfare benefits. The first chapter examines the problem in a static setting. To meet benefit eligibility, individuals reduce their labor supply so that they meet the required income level. This action enables them to increase their payoff but makes it difficult for government to differentiate the needy from the non-needy. Using a signaling game model and incorporating income-related ordeals (i.e. required-hour and essential component) as the signals, this study finds that government can mitigate the problem, increase social welfare, and maintain income-based eligibility requirements.

ISBN: 9781339408125Subjects--Topical Terms:

517137
Economics.

Essays on information asymmetry and welfare benefit.
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520 $a This dissertation explores the information asymmetry problem between government and applicants of means-tested welfare benefits. The first chapter examines the problem in a static setting. To meet benefit eligibility, individuals reduce their labor supply so that they meet the required income level. This action enables them to increase their payoff but makes it difficult for government to differentiate the needy from the non-needy. Using a signaling game model and incorporating income-related ordeals (i.e. required-hour and essential component) as the signals, this study finds that government can mitigate the problem, increase social welfare, and maintain income-based eligibility requirements.
520 $a The second chapter investigates the effect of the asymmetry when benefit applicants have choices of where and when to apply, and the solution to the asymmetry problem. Jurisdiction differential in net benefit may induce a migration from a low to a high net-benefit jurisdiction. Likewise, individuals may choose to procrastinate on the application process if they find that applying later gives higher net-benefit than applying now. Consequently, these behaviors create information asymmetry. Using a signaling game model, the result shows that, after accounting for required-hour and essential component, the individuals have no incentive to migrate or procrastinate on the application process in order to be eligible.
520 $a The third chapter evaluates the solution to the problem when maintaining a particular take-up rate is also a government's objective. Imposing an ordeal in the welfare system is expected to help government direct the benefit to the needy but this may reduce the take-up rate. Conditioning on any particular take-up rate that the government aims to achieve, the models provide a solution on how to distinguish the types of applicants without harming the take-up rate. Using 2013 U.S. state level data, the model predicts that adjusting the cutoff level of the ordeals may change the take-up rates anywhere between 0.008 and 9.233 percent. This range represents the total number of marginal individuals who are in the programs. This sheds some light on what particular cutoff level of ordeals a government should impose so that it does not harm the targeted take-up rates.
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