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The Effects of Time Limits and Other Policy Changes on Welfare Use, Work, and Income Among Female-Headed Families

Grogger, Jeffrey - 2021

, earnings, and income among female-headed families. Results based on data from the March Current Population Survey suggest that …

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The Effect of Welfare Payments on the Marriage and Fertility Behavior of Unwed Mothers : Results from a Twins Experiment

Grogger, Jeffrey; Bronars, Stephen G. - 2010

We study one aspect of the link between welfare and unwed motherhood: the relationship between benefit levels and the time-to-first-marriage and time-to-next-birth among women whose first" child was born out of wedlock. We use twin births to generate effectively random variation in welfare...

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The Effects of Work-Conditioned Transfers on Marriage and Child Well-Being : A Review

Grogger, Jeffrey - 2007

Transfer payments to poor families are increasingly conditioned on work, either via wage subsidies available only to …

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Time Limits and Welfare Use

Grogger, Jeffrey - 2021

18 percent of the recent decline in welfare use among female-headed families …

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Welfare Dynamics Under Time Limits

Grogger, Jeffrey; Michalopoulos, Charles - 2021

disproportionately on families with young children. We estimate age group-specific effects of time limits and test the prediction of the … reduce welfare use by the greatest amount among the families with the youngest children. Moreover, time limits have … substantial effects on welfare utilization, reducing monthly utilization probabilities by 19 percent. Time limits lead families to …

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Welfare Transitions in the 1990s : The Economy, Welfare Policy, and the EITC

Grogger, Jeffrey - 2021

The rapid decline in the welfare caseload remains a subject of keen interest to both policymakers and researchers. In this paper, I use data from the Survey of Income and Program Participation spanning the period from 1986 to 1999 to analyze how the economy, welfare reform, the Earned Income Tax...

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Welfare Reform, Returns to Experience, and Wages : Using Reservation Wages to Account for Sample Selection Bias

Grogger, Jeffrey - 2010

Work was one of the central motivations for welfare reform during the 1990s. One important rationale for work was based on human capital theory: work today should raise experience tomorrow, which in turn should raise future wage offers and reduce dependency on aid. Despite the importance of the...

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