Investopedia contributors come from a range of backgrounds, and over 25 years there have been thousands of expert writers and editors who have contributed. Robert Kelly is managing director of XTS ...

WASHINGTON, Nov. 17- “The Economics of Farm Animal Happiness” determined that farm animal welfare is an increasingly important topic to agricultural producers and that economists have an important ...

Welfare programs actually do crowd out private charity. The more the government does, the less families and churches, and ...

Welfare economics examines the allocation of resources and its impact on individual and social well‐being. Rooted in classical notions of Pareto efficiency, the field has evolved to encompass a broad ...

This week marks the 20 th anniversary of welfare reform. Welfare reform broadly refers to the bipartisan Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act (PRWORA) in 1996. Among other ...

A new study by Henrik Kleven, a Princeton economist, concluded that the earned income tax credit (EITC) has done little to induce employment increases among single mothers, attributing the large ...

The introduction of subsidies into insurance rates constitutes a type of quasi-welfare payment but leaves open the question of whether social welfare is increased, decreased, or unchanged by the ...

A key issue raised by the United Kingdom’s (UK) withdrawal from the European Union (EU) – popularly referred to as Brexit – is its implications for competition and economic welfare. The competition ...

Investopedia contributors come from a range of backgrounds, and over 25 years there have been thousands of expert writers and editors who have contributed. Erika Rasure is globally-recognized as a ...

Seriously. How are you feeling about your economic situation? Because the unemployment rate is still near generational lows, inflation is down to 3.2%, and gross domestic product, or GDP, grew at a ...

Intuition suggests there is no value in adding people to the population if it brings no benefits to people already living: creating people is morally neutral in itself. This paper examines the ...

Dog owners in Canberra, Australia must now walk their companions daily or face a $2,700 fine, due to a 2019 animal welfare law recognizing dogs as sentient beings. Does requiring the humane treatment ...