We assess the impact of Rhode Island's Family Independence Program (FIP) on the employment and earnings of current and former cash assistance recipients. We use administrative data from many sources, including data from state cash assistance records and from employer reports of employment and...

We assess the role of child care in the welfare to work transition using an unusually large and comprehensive data base. Our data are for Massachusetts, a state that began welfare reform in 1995 under a federal waiver, for the period July 1996 through August 1997. We find that both the nature of...

We provide descriptive evidence from Miami-Dade County (MDC) in FL and from five representative areas in Massachusetts (MA) that government policies governing welfare reform, the child-care subsidy system, and minimum-standards regulations have had considerable influence on the availability,...