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Benefits of Government Programs: A Comprehensive Analysis
E-Government Implementation Benefits
E-government initiatives have been widely researched, revealing several benefits despite the challenges faced during implementation. These benefits include improved efficiency in public service delivery, enhanced transparency, and increased citizen engagement. However, the literature indicates that the treatment of these benefits often lacks depth, and there is a scarcity of empirical studies that statistically evaluate the performance of e-government systems1. This suggests a need for more rigorous analysis to fully understand and optimize the benefits of e-government.
Psychological Ownership and Government Benefits Participation
One significant barrier to the uptake of government benefits is the participation gap, where eligible individuals do not claim the benefits they are entitled to. Research has shown that psychological ownership interventions can effectively address this gap. By framing government benefits in a way that makes individuals feel a sense of ownership, these interventions reduce the aversion to asking for assistance and significantly increase the pursuit of benefits. This approach has been demonstrated to be more effective than other psychological interventions, such as social norms and urgency, increasing interest in claiming benefits by 20% to 128%2.
Quality of Benefit-Cost Analysis in Government Policies
The quality of benefit-cost analysis (BCA) in government policy-making is crucial for informed decision-making. An extensive review of BCAs across different U.S. administrations revealed that many analyses lack basic economic information, such as net benefits and policy alternatives. This inconsistency in quality highlights the need for standardized and comprehensive BCA practices to ensure that policy decisions are based on robust economic evaluations3.
Economic and Non-Economic Benefits of Public Benefit Programs
Public benefit programs, including cash assistance, public health insurance, food assistance, and public housing, provide substantial direct benefits to recipients. Additionally, these programs offer significant indirect benefits to non-recipients, such as stimulating local economies, increasing employment, generating tax revenues, and enhancing neighborhood quality. These indirect benefits underscore the broader societal value of public benefit programs and suggest that reframing the narrative around these programs can increase public and political support7.
Fringe Benefits in Government Employment
Government employment often comes with a more comprehensive package of fringe benefits compared to the private sector. Studies indicate that government workers are more likely to receive benefits such as health insurance, pensions, and dental coverage. This advantage in fringe benefits highlights the competitive nature of government employment in terms of overall compensation, beyond just wage comparisons6.
In-Kind Government Programs
In-kind government programs, such as public housing, restrict consumption to the levels provided by the government. These programs are designed to ensure that essential needs are met, and their benefits can be measured using methodologies that integrate demand functions to recover utility and expenditure functions. This approach provides a flexible and accurate estimation of the benefits of such programs, ensuring that they are effectively meeting their objectives8.
Conclusion
Government programs offer a wide range of benefits, from improving public service delivery through e-government initiatives to providing comprehensive fringe benefits to government employees. Addressing participation gaps in benefit programs through psychological ownership interventions and ensuring high-quality benefit-cost analyses are crucial for maximizing the impact of these programs. Additionally, recognizing the indirect benefits of public benefit programs can help garner broader support and enhance their effectiveness. Overall, a more rigorous and comprehensive approach to evaluating and implementing government programs can significantly enhance their benefits to society.
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E-government implementation: A bird’s eye view of issues relating to costs, opportunities, benefits and risks
This paper identifies a need for more comprehensive research on costs, opportunities, benefits, and risks in e-government implementation to better understand their impact on system success.
Systematic Review
Highly CitedPsychological ownership interventions increase interest in claiming government benefits
Psychological ownership interventions significantly increase interest in claiming government benefits, outperforming common interventions like social norms and urgency.
Non-RCTHow Well Does the U.S. Government Do Benefit-Cost Analysis?
The U.S. government's benefit-cost analysis of federal regulations is often incomplete and has varied quality across administrations, with no clear trend in improvement over time.
Highly CitedState government cash and in-kind benefits: Intergovernmental fiscal transfers and cross-program substitution
The 1996 welfare reform reduced federal support for cash benefits, leading to reduced state expenditures on cash benefits and increased expenditures on Medicaid, regardless of beneficiary mobility.
Measurement of Economic Benefits for Potential Public Goods
The expenditure simulator technique shows promise for estimating economic benefits from government projects, offering a straightforward modification of the utility maximization problem and removing some problematic assumptions.
Government employment and the provision of fringe benefits
Government workers are more likely to receive four out of five major fringe benefits compared to private sector counterparts, suggesting past wage differentials underestimate the true compensation advantage enjoyed by government workers.
Reframing the benefits and beneficiaries of public benefits programs
Public benefits programs indirectly benefit non-recipients economically by increasing economic security, stimulating local economies, and providing tax revenues, and indirectly noneconomic benefits by enhancing neighborhood quality and fulfilling humanitarian values.
Literature ReviewThe benefits of in-kind government programs
This paper presents a flexible methodology for estimating the benefits of in-kind government programs like public housing, offering more flexibility in choosing a functional form for describing data.
BENEFITS RECEIVED FINANCING IN THE FEDERAL FISCAL SYSTEM
The benefits approach treats the taxpayer-government relationship as a quid pro quo, while the ability-to-pay approach views taxes as compulsory payments and the revenue-expenditure process as a planning problem.
Municipal Government Benefits Practices and Personnel Outcomes: Results from a National Survey
Municipal governments are competitive in traditional benefits but lag behind in family-friendly benefits, with most providing these benefits but not short-term disability.
Observational Study