Distributional effects of welfare reform for young adults: An unconditional quantile regression approach
利用挪威地理分阶段改革，研究要求年轻福利领取者满足工作条件对收入分配的影响，发现对女性低分位点收入有显著正向效应，且政策成本效益高。
The paper evaluates the distributional effects on earnings and income of requiring young welfare recipients to fulfill conditions related to work and activation. It exploits within-social insurance office variation in policy arising from a geographically staggered reform in Norway. The reform reduced welfare uptake and for women had large, positive effects in the lower part of the earnings distribution. The effect on the distribution of total income is also positive, thus gains in earnings more than offset reduced welfare benefits. Fewer welfare payments and smaller caseloads make the policy highly cost-effective.