Immigration policy continues to be at the forefront of policy discussions, and the use of welfare benefits by … immigrants has been hotly debated. In 1996, Congress enacted welfare reform legislation (PRWORA), which denied the use of most … means-tested assistance to non-citizens and lowered immigrant welfare dramatically. While Federal legislation imposed strict …

do not exercise. This study investigates the effects of welfare reform in the U.S. in the 1990s on voting of low income … through 2004 and exploiting changes in welfare policy across states and over time, we estimate the causal effects of welfare … reform on women's voting registration and voting participation during the period during which welfare reform unfolded. We …

development. The identification strategy exploits an important feature of the U.S.'s welfare work requirement rules - namely, age …-of-youngest-child exemptions - as a source of quasi-experimental variation in maternal employment. The 1996 welfare reform law empowered states to …

receipt on welfare dependency and high school completion rates among Norwegian youths. Our evaluation strategy exploits a … find that stricter conditionality significantly reduces welfare claims and increases high school completion rates. …

The paper examines the possible effects of introducing a large-scale welfare reform in Sweden, namely, the introduction … of comprehensive welfare accounts. Under this policy, individuals make mandatory contributions to accounts, which they … can top up with voluntary contributions. In return, individuals' welfare benefits are paid from their accounts. The paper …

partnered mothers and single childless women during the period of welfare reform in the UK. We employ a time allocation …

Activation policies to promote self-sufficiency among recipients of welfare and other types of benefits are becoming … more common in many welfare states. We evaluate a law change in Norway making welfare receipt conditional on participation … in an activation program for all welfare recipients below the age of 30. Analyzing the program's staggered implementation …

The UK Universal Credit (UC) welfare reform simplified the benefits system whilst strongly incentivising a return to … requirements dominate any positive welfare effects of the reduced administrative burden of claiming benefits. …