growth has been accompanied by improvements in multidimensional child welfare using a first-order dominance approach applied … do not indicate broad-based welfare advancement at the national, urban, or rural levels, they do suggest progress within …

temporarily lowers receipt of cash assistance (TANF) by 63 percent, the net impact on total income is still positive and large: In …

their numbers fell quite unevenly on cities and regions. In the United States welfare is not exclusively a federal … responsibility. In principle, 50 states share welfare responsibilities with the federal government, but in reality five heavily … impacted states bore three-quarters of the nation’s immigration-related welfare burden. Additionally, legal and illegal …

discuss the macroeconomic implications of U.S. welfare reform, and then conclude by analyzing the effectiveness of the U …

In this study we provide a new examination of the incentive effects of welfare rules on family structure. Focusing on … the AFDC and TANF programs, we first emphasize that the literature, by and large, has assumed that the rules of those … outcomes to welfare rules, we find significant effects of several welfare policies on family structure, both work …

temporarily lowers receipt of cash assistance (TANF) by 63 percent, the net impact on total income is still positive and large: In …