Putting policy into practice : five years of welfare reform -- Making the transition from welfare to work : successes but continuing concerns -- Family structure and childbearing before and after welfare reform -- Family incomes : rising, falling, or holding steady? -- How are children faring...

Recent administration proposals to address the rising cost of Medicaid will do little to contain costs or truly reform the program. The primary issues are the large differences among state Medicaid programs in coverage and benefits and the programs high and rising costs. In this paper, we...

Devolution of authority over social programs creates a particular challenge for those attempting to assess the effects of this shift in the structure of American federalism. While the increased diversity among state policies may provide fertile ground for exploring the effects of individual...

Recent academic research on tax incidence has shifted from an emphasis on static and annual perspectives to examinations of dynamic and lifetime issues. Meanwhile, policy economists are forced to rely on annual data and hence annual analyses. The purpose of this paper is to discuss the nature...

Fundamental tax reform may change relative prices of consumption goods and may therefore have important effects on the uses side that are ignored by most general equilibrium simulation models. For a uniform rate of tax, in our model, results on the uses side are driven by the nonuniform tax...