Take-up of a social benefit is usually defined as receiving a benefit for which an individual or
household is eligible. The take-up rate is the fraction of those eligible for a program who …

One of the major social policy issues facing the United States in the first decade of the twenty-
first century is the large number of Americans lacking health insurance. This article surveys …

This article offers two theoretical contributions. First, we develop the concept of
administrative burden as an important variable in understanding how citizens experience …

This paper offers a review of recent literature regarding the take up of social programs in the
US and UK A few general conclusions are drawn: First, take up is enhanced by automatic or …

High rates of understatement are found for many government transfer programs and in many
datasets. This understatement has major implications for our understanding of economic …

Administrative burden is an individual's experience of policy implementation as onerous.
Such burdens may be created because of a desire to limit payments to ineligible claimants …

Vulnerability, the susceptibility to harm, results from an interaction between the resources
available to individuals and communities and the life challenges they face. Vulnerability …

Abstract “Chilling effects” are a popular explanation for low program take-up rates among
immigrants, but the effects of an icy policy climate are inherently hard to measure. This paper …

Administrative burden is widely recognized as a barrier to program enrollment, denying
legal entitlements to many potentially eligible individuals. Building on recent research in …

Accurately measuring government benefit receipt in household surveys is necessary when
studying disadvantaged populations and welfare programs. The Food Stamp Program is …