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For some empirical evidence on stigma effects see Joel Handler and Ellen Jane Hollingworth, “Stigma, Privacy, and Other Attitudes of Welfare Recipients,”Stanford Law Review, November 1969. For a recent small effort at the theoretical level, see B. A. Weisbrod, “Toward an Economic Theory of the Stigma Effect of Welfare Programs,” Institute for Research on Poverty, University of Wisconsin, mimeo, 1970.
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I want to thank Robert Haveman and Eugene Smolensky for their comments on an earlier draft of this review.
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Weisbrod, B.A., Hochman, H.M., Hulett, J.R. et al. Reviews. Public Choice 11, 111–122 (1971). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01726217
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