single mothers whose youngest child turns 16 on the disability benefits welfare participation decision of single mothers with … these single mothers are 4.2 percentage points more likely to claim health benefits as their youngest child turns 16 …, consistent with a theoretical model of benefits choice. More than a quarter of single mothers who were initially on Income …

This paper examines the labour supply disincentives of the Income Support system among single mothers with no … withdrawal of Income Support for single mothers whose youngest child turns 16. At this cut-off age, barely ineligible mothers …

provided by mothers (or formal institutions) is superior to informal care-arrangements. …

-educated mothers, a result that is robust to a number of different specifications. We find no corresponding heterogeneity relative to … intermediate outcomes such as mothers' subsequent earnÿ­ings, child health, parental fertility, divorce rates, or the mothers …' mental health. Overall the results suggest positive causal interaction effects between mothers' education and the amount of …

mothers is very high. A typical household planning another child experienced a reduction in expected future child care costs …

The reform of the cash-based welfare program for single mothers in the US which occurred in the 1990s was the most …