Which Is NOT a Method of Improving the Outside Option

question 46

Multiple Choice

Which is NOT a method of improving the outside option to welfare in order to reduce moral hazard problems?

• A) providing job skills training for welfare recipients
• B) directly subsidizing the market wages
• C) using ordeal mechanisms
• D) fully enforcing the child support obligations of the fathers of children whose mothers are welfare recipients

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