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 …

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 …

participate in the labor market and whether to receive welfare. Hourly child care expenditures are estimated for all women in the … child care. These expenditures are then included as an independent variable predicting the probability of welfare recipiency … welfare recipiency, with a child care price elasticity of welfare recipiency equaling 0.28. The estimated child care price …

This paper provides an early analysis of child care subsidies under welfare reform. Previous studies of child care … subsidies use data from the pre-welfare-reform period, and their results may not apply to the very different post … care subsidy and the effects of subsidy receipt on employment, school attendance, job search, and welfare participation. We …

partnered mothers and single childless women during the period of welfare reform in the UK. We employ a time allocation …

Activation policies to promote self-sufficiency among recipients of welfare and other types of benefits are becoming … more common in many welfare states. We evaluate a law change in Norway making welfare receipt conditional on participation … in an activation program for all welfare recipients below the age of 30. Analyzing the program's staggered implementation …

The paper evaluates the distributional effects on earnings and income of requiring young welfare recipients to fulfill … geographically staggered reform in Norway. The reform reduced welfare uptake and for women had large, positive effects in the lower … more than offset reduced welfare benefits. Fewer welfare payments and smaller caseloads make the policy highly cost-effective. …

(CCDF), established as part of landmark welfare reform legislation in 1996. The main goal of the reform was to increase … employment and reduce welfare dependence among low-income families. Childcare subsidies have been effective in enabling parents …