indicators, including welfare participation, labor market involvement, earnings, income and poverty, and family formation. While … participation and increased family earnings. The result was a rise in total family income and a decline in poverty. The gains from … impact on work behavior after controlling for economic forces. These policies also appeared to have an impact on family …

This article examines the effects of poverty, public assistance, and family structure on school-age children's home …

couch their review of results on children is likewise consistent with the observed variation between programs and among … children of different ages. …

labor market outcomes are examined drawing on two rounds of the Indonesia Family Life Survey (IFLS), a longitudinal …, often working in their own or the family business. Among those who remained employed, there was also a good deal of shifting …

displace assistance that the unemployed receive from their extended family. Using data from a supplement to the Panel Study of …; twenty-nine percent of those receiving Unemployment Insurance benefits also receive cash transfers from their family or …

authors analyze the determinants of program use among children in different family types. Using data from the 1992 Survey of … actually more likely than other family types to receive government assistance. The authors conclude by considering the …