In 1993, the State of Iowa, through waivers, implemented reforms to its welfare program creating the Family Investment …

illegitimacy solely to government welfare programs. Specifically, a program similar to AFDC is introduced into an economy with low … motivates much of the empirical literature—a literature that has cast doubt on a strong link between AFDC and illegitimacy … illegitimacy are rising among both the poor and nonpoor despite the fact that AFDC payments are held constant or even falling. The …

prospects. The first essay finds that immigrants choose labor markets with smaller welfare-reform created native supply shocks … that the distribution of immigrants' destinations shifts markedly away from cities with high welfare participation prior to …

This dissertation presents and estimates a model that examines the economic causes of intergenerational welfare … recipiency. Previous literature in this area has found that daughters of welfare recipients have a higher incidence of receiving … welfare than daughters of non-recipients. My dissertation measures the possible economic causes underlying this phenomenon by …

instruments in altering diets and improving health. However, little is known about the welfare impacts of fiscal food policies on … society. This paper fills a gap in the literature byassessing the distributional impacts and welfare effects resulting from a … welfare economics framework is developed allowing the calculation of the distributional characteristics of various food groups …

This paper focuses on the estimation of changes in economic welfare (real income) on different groups (income deciles … rise in food prices has resulted in a welfare loss for all income deciles, particularly for those in the lower income … economic welfare (real income) on different groups (income deciles) of Hungarian and Romanian consumers following food price …

and welfare, we analyze the welfare from the agents economic that show the externalities negatives deriving from of the …

the New Member States (NMS), and the consequent welfare implications. The study finds that EU enlargement has important … NMS gain from accession because of higher prices, whereas consumers in most NMS face a welfare loss. Incorporating … technology transfer into the accession increases the welfare gain of producers despite falling prices because of the larger …