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Single Mothers Working at Night : Standard Work, Child Care Subsidies, and Implications for Welfare Reform

Tekin, Erdal - 2004

Using a data set from the post welfare reform environment (the 1999 National Survey of America's Families), this paper …

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Investing in Infants : The Lasting Effects of Cash Transfers to New Families

Barr, Andrew C.; Eggleston, Jonathan; Smith, Alexander A. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

We provide new evidence that cash transfers following the birth of a first child can have large and long-lasting effects on that child's outcomes. We take advantage of the January 1 birthdate cutoff for U.S. child-related tax benefits, which results in families of otherwise similar children...

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Paying Moms to Stay Home : Short and Long Run Effects on Parents and Children

Gruber, Jonathan; Kosonen, Tuomas; Huttunen, Kristiina - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

studying a day care fee reform that had the opposite effect of raising incentives to work - with corresponding opposite effects …

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Unconditional Cash Transfers for Families with Children in the U.S : A Scoping Review

Shah, Hema; Gennetian, Lisa A. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

Children represent the largest indirect beneficiaries of the U.S. social welfare system. Yet, many questions remain about the direct benefits of cash aid to children. The current understanding of the impacts of cash aid in the U.S. is drawn primarily from studies of in-kind benefits, tax...

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The Intergenerational Effects of Parental Leave : Exploiting Forty Years of U.S. Policy Variation

Flores, Andrea M.; Gayle, George-Levi; Hincapié, Andrés - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

We study the effects of job-protected leave policies on intergenerational mobility, long-run child outcomes, and parental decisions (labor market, investments in children, and fertility). We merge rich sources of historical information on family leave policies across the United States since 1973...

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The Effects of Income on the Economic Wellbeing of Families with Low Incomes : Evidence from the 2021 Expanded Child Tax Credit

Pilkauskas, Natasha; Michelmore, Katherine; Kovski, Nicole - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

We examine the effects of an unconditional cash transfer on the economic wellbeing (material hardship, ability to meet needs, money on hand, use of friends and family for assistance, and employment) of families and children with very low incomes. We use a parameterized difference-in-differences...

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Effects of Income on Infant Health : Evidence from the Expanded Child Tax Credit and Pandemic Stimulus Checks

Lyu, Wei; Wehby, George; Kaestner, Robert - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

During the COVID-19 pandemic, the federal government issued stimulus checks and expanded the child tax credit. These pandemic payments varied by marital status and the number of children in the household and were substantial with some families receiving several thousand dollars. We exploit this...

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Welfare Reform and the Quality of Young Children's Home Environments

Kalil, Ariel; Corman, Hope; Dave, Dhaval; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

This study investigates effects of welfare reform in the U.S., a major policy shift that increased employment of low …, we estimate effects of welfare reform on validated survey and observational measures of maternal behaviors that support …'s skill development. The results suggest that welfare reform did not affect the amount of time and material resources mothers …

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The Summer Drop in Female Employment

Price, Brendan M.; Wasserman, Melanie - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

We provide the first systematic account of summer declines in women's labor market activity. From May to July, the employment-to-population ratio among prime-age US women declines by 1.1 percentage points, whereas male employment rises; women's total hours worked fall by 9.8 percent, more than...

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Does the Delivery of Primary Health Care Improve Birth Outcomes? Evidence from the Rollout of Community Health Centers

Kose, Esra; O'Keefe, Siobhan M.; Rosales-Rueda, Maria - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

Introduced as part of the War on Poverty, Community Health Centers (CHCs) deliver primary care to underserved populations by locating sliding-scale clinics in economically disadvantaged areas. We investigate how this policy affected infant health using the rollout of CHCs and a flexible event...

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