In this paper, we use newly available data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth to investigate the effects of early motherhood on academic and behavioral outcomes for children born to early childbearers. We find that early motherhood's strong negative correlation with children's test...

In this paper we review evidence from previous studies of job and employment instability among less-educated young workers, and we provide some new evidence from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth. Our results indicate that early employment instability contributes somewhat to the low...

A revised version of this paper appears as "EITC Noncompliance: The Determinants of the Misreporting of Children." National Tax Journal 53(4) (part 2): 1135-1164. For more information see www.ntanet.org. <p>Internal Revenue Service data indicate that $4.4 billion in excess EITC was claimed for tax...</p>

Over the past 25 years there has been a dramatic decline in the number of quality jobs located in central cities. This has disproportionately had an adverse impact on the economic prospects of African-Americans. One issue that has been neglected by most urban poverty researchers is the reasons...

Since the emergence of the policy analysis profession in the 1960's, social policy initiatives increasingly have been linked to analytic projects designed to inform policymakers about the potential effects of proposed reforms. In poverty policymaking and other areas, these linkages have taken...

This paper examines the extent of welfare induced migration using 1980 and 1990 Census data. I begin by discussing a number of methodological issues which suggest biases in past methods used to study welfare migration. Using several different methods, I then provide new estimates which avoid...

We use data from the National Health Interview Surveys to measure the effects of the growth of Medicaid managed care on children. We examine both the probability that individual children were Medicaid-covered and the children's utilization of care. We find that managed care penetration has...

A fundamental property of a progressive income tax is that it provides implicit insurance against shocks to income by dampening the variability of disposable income and consumption. The Economic Recovery Act of 1981 (ERTA) and the Tax Reform Act of 1986 (TRA86) greatly reduced the number of...

This paper examines the extent to which welfare programs reduce the probability that vulnerable household are food insecure, where food insecurity occurs when the household experiences food deprivation because of financial resource constraints. The Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity...