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The Temporary Assistance for Needy Families Program

Moffitt, Robert A. - 2021

The Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) program was created in 1996 from what was previously named the Aid … to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC) program. The TANF program is intended to serve low-income families, primarily …

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Economic Effects of Means-Tested Transfers in the U.S

Moffitt, Robert A. - 2021

contraction in Aid to Families with Dependent Children, now titled the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families program. To …

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Welfare Rules, Incentives, and Family Structure

Moffitt, Robert A. - 2015

We provide a new examination of the incentive effects of welfare rules on family structure among low-income women by emphasizing that the eligibility and benefit rules in the AFDC and TANF programs are based more on the biological relationship between the children and any male in the household...

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Demographic Change and Public Assistance Expenditures

Moffitt, Robert A. - 2021

female-headed families is the strongest and dominant force in contributing to trends in real AFDC expenditures per capita …

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Has State Redistribution Policy Grown More Conservative?

Moffitt, Robert A. - 2021

It is well-known that real benefits in the major cash transfer program in the U.S. -- the Aid to Families with …

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Trends in the Level and Distribution of Income Support

Moffitt, Robert A. - 2010

Assistance for Needy Families. We examine the effect of these changes on benefits received by families. We find that transfer … and income classes. Very poor elderly, disabled, and childless families received greatly increased expenditures, mostly … Stamp programs. For example, AFDC-TANF participation for one-adult families with children and market income below 50 percent …

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Welfare Work Requirements with Paternalistic Government Preferences

Moffitt, Robert A. - 2006

Work requirements in means-tested transfer programs have grown in importance in the U.S. and in some other countries. The theoretical literature which considers their possible optimality generally operates within a traditional welfarist framework where some function of the utility of the poor is...

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Economics of Means-Tested Transfer Programs : Introduction

Moffitt, Robert A. - 2015

Needy Families, Supplemental Security Income, Subsidized Housing, Training, and Early Education programs. Each essay covers …

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Welfare Reform and the Labor Market

Chan, Marc - 2018

This paper reviews the basic theoretical models that are appropriate for analyzing different types of welfare reforms, and the related empirical literature. We first present the canonical labor supply model of a classical welfare program, and then extend this basic framework to include in-kind...

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Welfare Programs and Labor Supply

Moffitt, Robert A. - 2021

The labor supply and other work incentive effects of welfare programs have long been a central concern in economic research. Work has also been an increasing focus of policy reforms in the U.S., culminating with a number of major policy changes in the 1990s whose intent was to increase...

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