Changes in Household Size and Composition due to Financial Incentives
分析税收和转移支付项目如何激励家庭调整规模和构成，如引入非工资收入者或移出工资收入者，并用美国三项收入维持实验数据验证假设。
Tax and transfer programs inevitably create incentives relating to the size and composition of households. Examples of such incentives are the marriage penalty dependents exemptions and the eligibility rules for categorical welfare programs. This paper notes that changes in transfer program parameters may encourage recipient households to import nonwage-earning individuals especially children and to export wage earners. Several hypotheses regarding the nature of such responses are derived and supporting evidence is obtained using data from three experimental income-maintenance programs. The geographic focus is on the United States. (EXCERPT)