This paper studies employment patterns for low income workers receiving subsidized child care in Dade County, Florida. Florida has been an active state in welfare reform for several years. In July 1996, the AFDC program was supplanted in Florida by a new welfare program, Work and Gain Economic...

This paper considers the role of antitrust action in markets with negative externalities and the social welfare consequences of the 1911 break-up of American Tobacco. A theoretical model shows that monopoly can be the preferred market structure in some cases. We provide rough estimates of the...

Using factor analysis, ordinary least squares estimation, and maximum-likelihood ordered probit estimation, we examine the relationship between the socioeconomic characteristics of neighborhoods and their supply of licansed childcare. We find that supply of licensed childcare in Massachusetts is...