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 …

This paper uses data from the 1970, 1980 and 1990 Censuses to investigate the impact of welfare benefits across … factors that could influence both welfare benefit levels and family formation. In such a model, we find no effect of welfare … benefits on single motherhood for whites or blacks, and a positive effect of welfare benefits on single headship only for …

This paper uses data from the 1970, 1980 and 1990 Censuses to investigate the impact of welfare benefits across … factors that could influence both welfare benefit levels and family formation. In such a model, we find no effect of welfare … benefits on single motherhood for whites or blacks, and a positive effect of welfare benefits on single headship only for …

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 …

use data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth (NSLY) to trace welfare use, poverty status and primary sources of …Much previous research has focused on the length of welfare spells and returns to welfare following an exit. Few … income in the five years following an exit from welfare. We find that while there is a trend toward improved economic status …