Time limits are a central component of recent welfare reforms and represent a substantial departure from previous … policy. However, several recent studies suggest that they have had no effect on welfare use. In this paper I attempt to … the timing of welfare reform, however, I find that time limits have negative effects on welfare use and that those effects …

This paper evaluates the effectiveness of recent welfare reforms, investigating the effects of both state …, including welfare participation, labor market involvement, earnings, income and poverty, and family formation. While no single …

likelihood of being reviewed for SSI eligibility at age 18 created by the 1996 welfare reform law. We evaluate this natural …

affected by welfare reform and other policy changes of the 1990s. We focus on consumption as well as other indicators including … the material circumstances of single mothers improved in the decades following welfare reform. The consumption of the most …

empirical and welfare implications of this interaction can depend crucially on the relevance of labor market frictions. Absent …

This study estimated the effects of welfare reform in the 1990s, which permanently restructured and contracted the cash … implicit goal underlying welfare reform was the disruption of an assumed intergenerational transmission of disadvantage …; however, little is known about the effects of welfare reform on the well-being of the next generation. Using intergenerational …