Who was affected by new welfare reform strategies? Microdata estimates from Canada

Determinants of social assistance caseloads for employable single adults without dependants in Canada

“…Studies by Berg and Gabel (2010, 2013, 2015) respectively are worth considering as well. Two important factors are worth pointing out in reference to these three studies: (a) unlike Kneebone and White (2009), none of their analysis includes a lagged SA rate as one of the independent variables; and (b) like Kneebone and White (2009), Berg and Gabel draw attention to the need for future research looking at determinants of welfare participation by subpopulation (i.e., singles, couples, etc.…”

Decentralization Mislaid: On New Paternalism and Skepticism toward Experts

“…Ecological rationality explains why individual decision rules that deviate from axiomatic rationality can perform to a sufficiently high level of performance in a particular class of decision domains (Gigerenzer and Goldstein, 1996;Gigerenzer and Selten, 2001;Gigerenzer et al, 1999;Berg and Gigerenzer, 2006;Berg and Gigerenzer, 2007;Berg and Gigerenzer, 2010;Berg et al, 2016a;Berg, 2010;Berg, 2014b;Berg, 2014a;Berg, 2015;Berg, 2017). It also explains less-is-more effects in regulation and institutional design (Bennis et al, 2012)-for example, the virtues of simple legal codes (Epstein, 1995); light regulation of 'tragedy of the commons' problems in public goods (Berg and Kim, 2015); beneficial price discrimination in public healthcare (Berg and Kim, 2018b); gains from decentralization of social assistance (Berg and Gabel, 2015;Berg and Gabel, 2017a;Berg and Gabel, 2017b); meritocratic education institutions based on simplicity (Berg, 2009;Berg and Nelson, 2016); the use of name recognition in scientific networks (Berg and Faria, 2008); decentralized information sharing (Kameda et al, 2011;Finin et al, 2009); problems caused by adding new protected classes under anti-discrimination law (Berg and Lien, 2002;Berg and Lien, 2006;Berg and Lien, 2009); decentralized solutions to Schelling's neighbourhood segregation problem Berg et al, 2013); simplicity and transparency in government valuation of real estate (Berg, 2006a); behavioral sophistication in the design of labor market policy (Berg, 2006b); the ecological rationality of private institutional norms established by Islamic Banks (Berg and Kim, ...…”