Bitler, Marianne P.; Gelbach, Jonah B.; Hoynes, Hilary W.; … - Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta - 2002
of needy parents on government benefits, in part by promoting marriage; the pre-reform welfare system was widely believed … to discourage marriage because it primarily provided benefits to single mothers. However, welfare reform may have … on work. This paper uses Vital Statistics data on marriages and divorces during 1989-2000 to examine the role of welfare …
