any of the states. Understanding the effects of the reform is thus of value in informing other potential reform … initiatives. In addition, the reform and associated changes in the economic environment provide an opportunity to assess whether a … simple general equilibrium model can be of value in framing the study of such reform initiatives. In this paper, we present …

From 1980 to 2004, the number of personal bankruptcy filings in the United States increased more than five-fold, from … reform that led to the adoption in 2005 of the Bankruptcy Abuse Prevention and Consumer Protection Act (BAPCPA), which made ….5% in 2004. The paper then examines how the adoption of BAPCPA changed bankruptcy law. Prior to 2005, bankruptcy law …

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preservation ensures no comprehensive reform path may command broad support. The roots of underdevelopment may therefore lie in the …

Work was one of the central motivations for welfare reform during the 1990s. One important rationale for work was based … reduce dependency on aid. Despite the importance of the this notion, few studies have estimated the effect of welfare reform … meager returns to experience, undermining the link between welfare reform and wages.An important analytical obstacle is the …

In this paper, we investigate the effect of federal welfare reform on the employment, hours of work and marriage rates … non-citizens, we investigate whether the behavioral response to welfare reform differed by recency of immigration. Finally … these states to investigate whether the immigrant provisions of federal welfare reform legislation had a 'chilling' effect …