evidence on this question through analysis of a Michigan welfare-to-work program in which program participants were randomly … placing participants in either temporary or direct-hire jobs improves their odds of leaving welfare and escaping poverty in … the short term. However, we find that only direct-hire placements help reduce welfare dependency over longer time horizons …

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 examines the impacts of recent Australian welfare to work reforms for low-income parents of school …-aged children who had been in receipt of Parenting Payment – the main welfare payment for this group – for at least one year … large, statistically significant and positive impacts on the hazard rates for exiting the welfare payment. Two thirds of …

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 …

We estimate the effect of welfare reform on the intergenerational transmission of welfare participation and related … Dynamics. Because states implemented welfare reform at different times starting in 1992, the cross-state variation over time … permits us to quasi-experimentally separate out the effect of mothers' welfare participation during childhood on daughters …

Exploiting variation in welfare reform across states and over time and using relevant comparison groups, this study … estimates the effects of welfare reform on an important source of human capital acquisition among women at risk for relying on … welfare: vocational education and training. The results suggest that welfare reform reduced enrollment in full-time vocational …

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 …