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 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 …

We study the intergenerational transmission of welfare benefit receipt in Germany. We first describe the correlation … between welfare receipt experienced in the parental household and subsequent own welfare receipt of young adults. In a second … step, we investigate whether the observed correlations reflect causal effects of past welfare experience. We use family …

We study the intergenerational transmission of welfare benefit receipt in Germany. We first describe the correlation … between welfare receipt experienced in the parental household and subsequent own welfare receipt of young adults. In a second … step, we investigate whether the observed correlations reflect causal effects of past welfare experience. We use family …

We study the intergenerational transmission of welfare benefit receipt in Germany. We first describe the correlation … between welfare receipt experienced in the parental household and subsequent own welfare receipt of young adults. In a second … step, we investigate whether the observed correlations reflect causal effects of past welfare experience. We use family …

We study the intergenerational transmission of welfare benefit receipt in Germany. We first describe the correlation … between welfare receipt experienced in the parental household and subsequent own welfare receipt of young adults. In a second … step, we investigate whether the observed correlations reflect causal effects of past welfare experience. We use family …

This paper attempts to uncover the effects of a welfare-to-work programme that acts as a wage subsidy on wage growth by … exploiting an expansion to this welfare programme in the UK. The conventional wisdom is that such programmes trap recipients into …

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. …

Considerable research attention has been devoted to the question of whether and to what extent changes in welfare … policy legislated in the 1990s might have deterred immigrant participation in welfare programs, although only post-1996 … local labor market conditions in explaining declines in the welfare participation trends of immigrants and reductions in the …