Policy-makers have confronted welfare dependence and poverty among single mothers by imposing work requirements and … time limits on the receipt of welfare benefits. Reforms with such features have generally reduced programme case-loads and … substitution associated with such reforms. In this paper, we test whether reductions in welfare dependence may be offset by …

transfers. We examine how welfare reforms that introduced mutual obligations affected the economic position of single mothers … since the 2005 Welfare-to-Work Act came into effect in July 2006, a downward trend that was aggravated by the Global … Welfare-to-Work reform. We find unadjusted single-motherhood gaps of 0.2 SD in cognitive and 0.3 SD in non-cognitive skills …

participate in the labor market and whether to receive welfare. Hourly child care expenditures are estimated for all women in the … child care. These expenditures are then included as an independent variable predicting the probability of welfare recipiency … welfare recipiency, with a child care price elasticity of welfare recipiency equaling 0.28. The estimated child care price …

with disabilities. With other forms of federal support devolving to state programs (e.g., welfare), policymakers pressing …-dominated welfare environment where people with disabilities increasingly wish to be included in the labor market …

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 …

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 …

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 …