University of Maryland
Sociology 498: Homelessness 

Rossi: Down and Out in America

Rossi's note on perverse incentives:

"I have no specific recommendations about how to avoid building perverse incentives into our disability benefit programs." Peter Rossi,

Down and Out in America, chapter 7, page 206.

What is a "perverse incentive"?

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