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Blog Post
Welfare Reform and Its Discontents
…2, https://www.nber.org/system/files/working_papers/w34759/w34759.pdf.) I thank Kevin Corinth for providing the data behind the figures in his paper with Burkhauser. Using administrative data, Kevin Corinth, Bruce Meyer, and Derek Wu found that a…
Commentary
How Fixing SNAP’s Payment Error Rate Formula Would Change State Cost Shares
…continue to exceed underpayments. Source: USDA SNAP Payment Error Rates, Fiscal Year 2025; USDA SNAP State Level Benefit Data; Kevin Corinth, 2026, “Paying for Payment Errors: State Incentives and Caseload…
Op-Ed
The Ongoing Battle to Defend Welfare Reform
…one of us (Corinth) and Meyer in a working paper released a month after the economist letter. Corinth, Meyer, and their colleagues drew on estimates from the academic literature of how sensitive…
Working Paper
Paying for Payment Errors: State Incentives and Caseload Responses to SNAP Cost Sharing
…differential response suggests caution in drawing conclusions about the drivers of the SNAP caseload decline. Read full paper here Corinth (2026) State Incentives and Caseload Responses to SNAP Cost SharingDownload…
Report
Comment on CMS-2454-IFC: Clarifying “Household” for the SNAP Exclusion from the Medicaid Community Engagement Requirement
…definition is better supported by the wording and intent of the statute. Finally, I present estimates of the population affected by this ambiguity. Read full Comment here. Corinth Comment on CMS-2454-IFCDownload…
Multimedia
Discussing Medicaid work requirements: Corinth on C-SPAN’s ‘Washington Journal’
Center on Opportunity and Social Mobility Deputy Director Kevin Corinth discusses Medicaid work requirements on C-SPAN’s ‘Washington Journal.’…
Article
Poverty and Dependency in the United States, 1939–2023
…research brief is based on Richard V. Burkhauser and Kevin Corinth, “Poverty and Dependency in the United States, 1939–2023,” National Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper no. 34759, January 2026….
Op-Ed
Congress Shouldn’t Create Another Newborn Benefit
A bipartisan group of lawmakers recently introduced the Supporting Newborn Parents Act of 2026, which would provide parents up to $2,000 when a child is born. The impulse is understandable. Babies…
Report
Comment on Proposed Rule Establishing Flexibility for Implementation of Work Requirements and Term Limits in Federal Housing Assistance Programs
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Journal Publication
Has Generational Progress Stalled? Income Growth Over Five Generations of Americans
Abstract Whether each generation of Americans continues to economically surpass the previous one has recently been called into question. We construct a posttax, post transfer income measure from 1963 to…
Article
Compiling My Work on Work Incentives
…much cleaner than before. One new feature of the site is the “Spotlight on Work Incentives” page. There we’ve highlighted three previously published pieces each by Kevin Corinth, Robert Doar,…
Commentary
Opportunity Book: A New Tool for Connecting Policymakers with Innovative Ideas
Today the Center on Opportunity and Social Mobility at the American Enterprise Institute (AEI) is releasing Opportunity Book, a new online tool that connects policymakers, journalists, and researchers with innovative…