system, the rise of managed care in the 1990s may affect the relationship between liability reform and defensive medicine. In … this paper, we assess empirically the extent to which managed care and liability reform interact to affect the cost of care …

sources to examine the impact of the early stages of welfare reform on poor working families who do not receive cash … estimation techniques, we find that the impact of the simultaneous October 1996 implementation of welfare reform and a federal … increases in funding for Child Care Subsidies associated with welfare reform led to a significant increase in earnings. On net …

Using a data set from the post welfare reform environment (the 1999 National Survey of America's Families), this paper …

reform has been shared equally among families of varying educational background. We analyze data from the March Current … do not have a high school degree are significantly worse off in the TANF era, relative to the era prior to welfare reform …

, and income. Yet most welfare reform research focuses on mean impacts. We investigate the importance of heterogeneity using …'s greater costs. We conclude that welfare reform's effects are likely both more varied and more extensive than has been …

have created stronger incentives to reform in the high inflation countries. Recent reforms look like they are the children …