In this paper, we examine reforms that alleviate large employment disincentives induced by child-related transfers for married mothers. We develop a life-cycle model where married couples face labor market, child care and fertility risk, and make joint labor supply and consumption-saving...

Machine generated contents note: I -- EXECUTIVE SUMMARY -- The Panel, 1 -- Findings, 2 -- Key Questions of Interest, 3 -- Evaluation Methods for the Questions of Interest, 7 -- Data for Monitoring and Evaluating Social Welfare Programs, 8 -- 1 INTRODUCTION -- The Panel, 14 -- Policy Background,...

Welfare reform is a definitive moment in this history of America. We are making determinations about our social welfare system with significant and widespread implications for the weakest and most defenseless Americans. It is widely understood that the social safety net is being torn apart by...

Main description: The Nobel Prize-winning economist Robert Solow directs his attention here to one of today's most controversial social issues: how to get people off welfare and into jobs. With characteristic eloquence, wit, and rigor, Solow condemns the welfare reforms recently passed by...

Even before the 1996 Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act, the rhetoric of “welfare reform” debate blamed recipients for their poverty while diverting attention from structural problems of our society. Proponents of “reform” argued that by withholding welfare...