Dave, Dhaval M.; Corman, Hope; Kalil, Ariel; … - 2019
This study investigates the effects of welfare reform in the U.S. in the 1990s, which dramatically limited cash … plausibly causal effects of welfare reform on a range of prosocial and antisocial behaviors (volunteering, participating in … not in school as potential mediators. We find that: (1) Welfare reform had no favorable effects on any of the youth …