to use welfare, it becomes useful to consider welfare usage among women. A-priori welfare programs are set up in such a … possibility among women and investigate if race/ethnicity and birthplace still have a role to play in the decision to use welfare … for welfare usage among comparable women. In addition, we do not find any significant differences in welfare usage among …

with it higher income, independence and bargaining power. Yet a decrease in women's subjective well-being over previous … decades has been documented, perhaps due to a Second Shift effect where women work more but still bear the brunt of housework … men and women, but different effects on satisfaction with work-life balance. This suggests that fathers' life satisfaction …

Self-Sufficiency Project (SSP), an experiment providing generous financial incentives to exit welfare and obtain stable … employment. The model incorporates the main features of many unemployment insurance and welfare programs, including eligibility … control group and simulate the experiment within the model. The model matches the welfare-to-work transition of the treatment …

This paper examines the welfare implications associated with different degrees of diversity or similarity between … populations, everyone ends up in the country with the highest initial level of human capital. Welfare under any of the equilibrium …. In addition, trade and migration are not equivalent if social capital is present: the highest welfare is obtained with …

. Using data on all women who entered welfare between the second quarter of 1997 and fourth quarter of 1999 in these states …Studies examining the effectiveness of welfare-to-work programs present findings that are mixed and sometimes at odds … past approaches to estimate program effectiveness by using administrative data on welfare recipients in Missouri and North …

Recent welfare reforms are prompting some state and local welfare agencies to use temporary help service firms to help … place welfare recipients into jobs. Concerns have arisen that these jobs are more likely to pay low wages, provide fewer … benefits, and offer less stability. We explore the effects of temporary help firms on the labor market outcomes of welfare …

estimate the effect of child-bearing on economic and marital outcomes. The application is motivated by American welfare reform … childbearing, but evidence on the impact of childbearing on marital stability and welfare use is more tenuous. …