This paper examines the impacts of recent Australian welfare to work reforms for low-income parents of school …-aged children who had been in receipt of Parenting Payment – the main welfare payment for this group – for at least one year … large, statistically significant and positive impacts on the hazard rates for exiting the welfare payment. Two thirds of …

development. The identification strategy exploits an important feature of the U.S.'s welfare work requirement rules - namely, age …-of-youngest-child exemptions - as a source of quasi-experimental variation in maternal employment. The 1996 welfare reform law empowered states to …

We estimate the effect of welfare reform on the intergenerational transmission of welfare participation and related … Dynamics. Because states implemented welfare reform at different times starting in 1992, the cross-state variation over time … permits us to quasi-experimentally separate out the effect of mothers' welfare participation during childhood on daughters …

Recent studies have used a distributional analysis of welfare reform experiments suggesting that some individuals … reduce hours in order to opt into welfare, an example of behavioral-induced participation. Using data on Connecticut's Jobs …. We offer a simple explanation for this: women assigned to Jobs First incur welfare participation costs to labor supply at …

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This paper assesses the ability of a structural labor supply model to predict the impacts of a welfare policy change by … studying two state welfare reform experiments conducted in Minnesota (MN) and Vermont (VT) during the mid-1990s. I estimate and … evaluate a static discrete choice model of labor supply and welfare participation that incorporates heterogeneity in …

Policy-makers have confronted welfare dependence and poverty among single mothers by imposing work requirements and … time limits on the receipt of welfare benefits. Reforms with such features have generally reduced programme case-loads and … substitution associated with such reforms. In this paper, we test whether reductions in welfare dependence may be offset by …

transfers. We examine how welfare reforms that introduced mutual obligations affected the economic position of single mothers … since the 2005 Welfare-to-Work Act came into effect in July 2006, a downward trend that was aggravated by the Global … Welfare-to-Work reform. We find unadjusted single-motherhood gaps of 0.2 SD in cognitive and 0.3 SD in non-cognitive skills …