partnered mothers and single childless women during the period of welfare reform in the UK. We employ a time allocation …

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 …

The UK Universal Credit (UC) welfare reform simplified the benefits system whilst strongly incentivising a return to … requirements dominate any positive welfare effects of the reduced administrative burden of claiming benefits. …

The paper evaluates the distributional effects on earnings and income of requiring young welfare recipients to fulfill … geographically staggered reform in Norway. The reform reduced welfare uptake and for women had large, positive effects in the lower … more than offset reduced welfare benefits. Fewer welfare payments and smaller caseloads make the policy highly cost-effective. …

This study investigates the effects of welfare reform in the U.S. in the 1990s, which dramatically limited cash … of the reforms for the next generation. Using two nationally-representative datasets, we exploit differences in welfare … plausibly causal effects of welfare reform on a range of prosocial and antisocial behaviors (volunteering, participating in …

Considerable research attention has been devoted to the question of whether and to what extent changes in welfare … policy legislated in the 1990s might have deterred immigrant participation in welfare programs, although only post-1996 … local labor market conditions in explaining declines in the welfare participation trends of immigrants and reductions in the …