Policy changes in the United States in the 1990s resulted in sizable increases in employment rates of single mothers …. We show that this increase led to a large and abrupt increase in work experience for single mothers with young children …. We then examine the economic return to this increase in experience for affected single mothers. Despite the increases in …

changing work incentives for single mothers. To undertake an ex ante policy evaluation of the employment effects of the PPACA … policies. Simulations show that single mothers increase their labor supply at the extensive and the intensive margin by six and … increases single mothers' welfare by about $190 per month. …

-educated single mothers, 1990-2005. It also examines changing participation in cash welfare and the Food Stamp Program (FSP). Relative … to single childless women, there has been no increase in UI benefit receipt among single mothers entering a spell of … unemployment in the postreform period, even though single mothers have increased their relative rates of UI eligibility. Because of …

mothers in the U.S. using the Consumer Expenditure Surveys for 1994-2004. Our analysis suggests that the food stamp caseload …-educated single mothers. We find that state and federal welfare reforms during the 1990s lowered the food stamp caseload by …