We study the effects of minimum wages and the EITC in the post-welfare reform era. For the minimum wage, the evidence …

that the Swedish reform is self-financing for single mothers, whereas a 10 per cent deficit follows from the adapted EITC …

Financial Crisis and the 2013 suspension of grandfathered single parenting payment rules. The reform diminished parenting and … Welfare-to-Work reform. We find unadjusted single-motherhood gaps of 0.2 SD in cognitive and 0.3 SD in non-cognitive skills …

of leavers prior to and after welfare reform. We find that after welfare reform leavers are much more likely to be … working. Although in Maryland those working have earnings that are somewhat below employed leavers prior to reform, in … substantially, and leavers are less likely to return to welfare following reform. -- Welfare reform ; earnings ; employment …

model by comparing reactions to a welfare reform that implied a dramatic increase in welfare benefits predicted by our model …

Welfare reform has transformed the U.S. cash assistance program for single parents and their children. Although there … remains substantial uncertainty about the importance of reform in producing the subsequent decline in the welfare caseload … employment and welfare recidivism comparing cohorts of leavers prior to and after welfare reform. We find that after welfare …