development. The identification strategy exploits an important feature of the U.S.'s welfare work requirement rules - namely, age …-of-youngest-child exemptions - as a source of quasi-experimental variation in maternal employment. The 1996 welfare reform law empowered states to …

Recent studies have used a distributional analysis of welfare reform experiments suggesting that some individuals … reduce hours in order to opt into welfare, an example of behavioral-induced participation. Using data on Connecticut's Jobs …. We offer a simple explanation for this: women assigned to Jobs First incur welfare participation costs to labor supply at …

This study investigates the effects of welfare reform in the U.S. in the 1990s, which dramatically limited cash … of the reforms for the next generation. Using two nationally-representative datasets, we exploit differences in welfare … plausibly causal effects of welfare reform on a range of prosocial and antisocial behaviors (volunteering, participating in …

(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 …

explicitly implemented to improve children's welfare, in theory their impact on child labour is undetermined. This paper … findings underline the usefulness of cash transfers as a relatively safe policy instrument to improve child welfare, but also …