the material circumstances of single mothers improved in the decades following welfare reform. The consumption of the most …

extended eligibility only to children born after September 30, 1983. This feature resulted in a large discontinuity in the … lifetime years of Medicaid eligibility of children at this birthdate cutoff. Those with family incomes at or just below the … cohorts of children born on either side of this cutoff from childhood through early adulthood. We examine changes in rates of …

anti-poverty effect on children than any existing government program, though at a higher cost per child raised above the … at all by at least $2,000 per child for most workers with children. Relying on elasticity estimates consistent with …

-skilled workers with children. Other evidence tying changes in well-being to the tax credit is confounded by other policy changes …

of single mothers, particularly those with young children. In this paper, we first document these large changes in … policies and employment. We then examine if the policy changes are the reason for the large increases in single mothers' labor … supply. We find evidence that a large share of the increase in work by single mothers can be attributed to the EITC, with …