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 …

Welfare-to-work programs ... …

We derive Local Average Treatment Effect estimates of the impact of welfare benefit denial on future receipt using a … effects from being granted benefits and a core group who do not. The core group moves quickly back onto welfare when they are …

of rehabilitation services to identify barriers to welfare policy reform. The analysis relies on the assumption that some … European welfare regimes have a similar initial structure but may differ in their speed of adaptation to the challenges posed …, some can be strengthened by governments wishing to improve the long term performance of the welfare system. …

receipt on welfare dependency and high school completion rates among Norwegian youths. Our evaluation strategy exploits a … find that stricter conditionality significantly reduces welfare claims and increases high school completion rates. …

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 …