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Shierholz, Heidi S.

Three essays on poverty and inequality in the United States.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Three essays on poverty and inequality in the United States.
Author:	Shierholz, Heidi S.
Description:	99 p.
Notes:	Chair: Rebecca M. Blank.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 66-10, Section: A, page: 3755.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International66-10A.
Subject:	Economics, Labor.
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3192778
ISBN:	9780542365928

Three essays on poverty and inequality in the United States.
Shierholz, Heidi S.

Three essays on poverty and inequality in the United States. - 99 p.

Chair: Rebecca M. Blank.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Michigan, 2005.

Each of the main chapters in this dissertation deal broadly with issues of poverty and inequality in the United States from an empirical microeconomics perspective. I approach these issues from two distinct angles. First, I examine various aspects of a large government transfer program that has received virtually no research attention from economists---the public provision of attorneys for poor people accused of crimes. One primary question I investigate is whether defendants who take up the services of a publicly provided attorney have better or worse case outcomes than they would have had they retained a private attorney. I use an instrumental variables approach to address nonrandom selection into the population of defendants who have a publicly provided attorney, where the instrument comes from county-level variation in eligibility screening practices. This approach identifies the effect on case outcomes of having a publicly provided attorney for defendants near the border of eligibility. I find that these marginal defendants have better case outcomes with a publicly provided attorney than they would have had with the private alternatives they could afford. Importantly, these results are agnostic about whether publicly provided attorneys are as effective on average as their private counterparts, but they do show that public attorneys are providing a valuable service to their target population.

ISBN: 9780542365928Subjects--Topical Terms:

212660
Economics, Labor.

Three essays on poverty and inequality in the United States.
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