Tag
welfare_stigma
3 findings
Labour & employmentProgram Outcome Stigma Dominance Over Participation StigmaInterventions addressing job outcome stigmas created large heterogeneous responses ranging from a -15.5 percentage point reduction in applications in low-response groups to positive gains in high-response groups, whereas financial hardship framing produced no statistically significant change in application rates (-2.3 percentage points, p = 0.44) or applicant composition.RCTLabour & employmentProgram Outcome Stigma versus Welfare StigmaEmphasizing that training was subsidized for financial hardship produced no statistically significant change in application rates (+0.003, SE = 0.022, control mean = 0.426) and generated no significant heterogeneous treatment effects across machine learning groups (p = 0.315).RCTEconomics (general)Welfare Stigma Neutrality in Developing EconomiesExplicit financial hardship framing caused no statistically significant change in application rates (-2.3 percentage points, SE = 0.030) or Lasso-based demographic composition relative to standard subsidized control.RCT