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Joint Center for Poverty Research
Working Papers

Welfare-Public Assistance


Adolescent Outcomes, Poverty Status, and Welfare Reform: An Analysis based on the Survey of Program Dynamics
Author(s): Eileen Trzcinski, Jerry Brandell

Adolescents' School Enrollment and Employment:Effect of State Welfare Policies
Author(s): Lingxin Hao, Andrew Cherlin, Nan M. Astone

AFDC Benefits and Nonmarital Births to Young Women
Author(s): Saul D. Hoffman, E. Michael Foster

An Insider View: Knowledge and Opinions of Welfare from African American Girls in Poverty
Author(s): Ann M. Kuta, P. Lindsay Chase-Lansdale, Rebekah Levine Coley

Anti-Poverty Policy and Practice: Ethnographic Case Study of Churches In Appalachia, Kentucky and South-Central, Los Angeles: A Preliminary Report
Author(s): Katherine Amato-von Hemert

Assessing the Implications of Welfare Reform for Children's SSI Receipt
Author(s): Loretta E. Bass, Jane Mosley

Associations Between Participation in the National School Lunch Program, Food Insecurity, and Child Well-Being
Author(s): Rachel Dunifon, Lori Kowaleski-Jones

Can Anti-Poverty Programs Improve Family Functioning and Enhance Children's Well-Being?
Author(s): Aletha C. Huston, Greg Duncan, Robert Granger, Vonnie McLoyd

Unavailable

Changes in Child Social Program Participation in the 1990s: Initial Findings from Illinois
Author(s): Robert M. Goerge, Bong Joo Lee

Changes in Food Security after Welfare Reform: Can We Identify a Policy Effect?
Author(s): Scott Winship, Christopher Jencks

Child Poverty, Program Participation, and Intergenerational Coresidence:
Author(s): Jan E. Mutchler

Contracting Welfare Reform: Uncertainties of Capacity-Building Within Disjointed Federalism
Author(s): Evelyn Brodkin, Carolyn Fuqua, Katarina H. Thoren

Did Welfare Leavers' Employment Levels and Job Characteristics Change During TANF Implementation: An analysis using SIPP 1996-2000
Author(s): Claudia J. Coulton, Younghee Lim, Thomas Cook, Nina Lalich

Disadvantage Among Families Remaining on Welfare
Author(s): Robert A. Moffitt, Andrew Cherlin

Do Minimum Wage Increases Lower the Probability that Low-Skilled Workers Will Receive Fringe Benefits?
Author(s): Anne Royalty

Do the Poor Move to Receive Higher Welfare Benefits?
Author(s): Bruce D. Meyer

Does Context Affect SCHIP Disenrollment? Findings from a Multilevel Analysis
Author(s): Jane Miller, Julie Phillips

Does it Pay to Move from Welfare to Work?
Author(s): Sheldon Danziger, Colleen M. Heflin, Mary Corcoran, Elizabeth Oltmans

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Does Participation in Multiple Welfare Programs Improve Birth Outcomes?
Author(s): Michael Brien, Christopher Swann

Does the Minimum Wage Affect Welfare Caseloads?
Author(s): Jane Millar, Marianne E. Page, Joanne Spetz

Does Welfare Participation Affect Women's Wages?
Author(s): Mary C. Noonan, Colleen M. Heflin

Employer Demand for Welfare Recipients By Race
Author(s): Harry J. Holzer, Michael A. Stoll

Events that Trigger Poverty Entries and Exits
Author(s): Signe-Mary McKernan, Caroline Ratcliffe

Examining the Effect of Industry Trends and Structure on Welfare Caseloads
Author(s): Timothy J. Bartik, Randall W. Eberts

Unavailable

Financial Incentives for Increasing Work and Income Among Low-Income Families
Author(s): Rebecca M. Blank, David Card, Philip K. Robins

Food Insecurity and Public Assistance
Author(s): George J. Borjas

Food Stamp Program Participation and Obesity: Estimates from the NLSY79
Author(s): Diane Gibson

Food Stamp Program Participation Dynamics in US Counties and States
Author(s): Stephan Goetz, Anil Rupasingha, Julie N. Zimmerman

Fragile Families and Welfare Reform: An Introduction
Author(s): Irwin Garfinkel, Sara McLanahan, Marta Tienda, Jeanne Brooks-Gunn

Group Loyalty and the Taste for Redistribution
Author(s): Erzo F.P. Luttmer

Health Insurance, Labor Supply, and Job Mobility: A Critical Review of the Literature
Author(s): Jonathan Gruber, Brigitte C. Madrian

How Different ARE Welfare and Working Families? And Do Those Differences Matter for Children's Achievement?
Author(s): Greg Duncan, Rachel Dunifon, Morgan Ward Doran, W. Jean Yeung

How Safe Is the Local Safety Net? Fiscal Distress, Public Spending, and the Budgetary Repercussions of Capital Convictions
Author(s): Katherine Baicker

Implementations of Welfare Changes for Parents of Young Children
Author(s): Jeanne Brooks-Gunn, Judith Smith, Lisa Berlin, Kyunghee Lee

Income and Job Market Outcomes After Welfare: 1990-1995
Author(s): Philip M. Gleason, Thomas P. Vartanian

Informal Family Insurance and the Design of the Welfare State
Author(s): Rafael Di Tella, Robert MacCulloch

Is There an Effect of Incremental Welfare Benefits on Fertility Behavior? A Look at the Family Cap
Author(s): Melissa Schettini Kearney

Location and the Low Income Experience: Analyses of Program Dynamics in the Iowa Family Investment Program
Author(s): Helen H. Jensen, Steven Garasky

Making ends meet: An examination of TANF and former TANF food pantry users in West Virginia
Author(s): Ann Nichols-Casebolt

Making Single Mothers Work: Recent Tax and Welfare Policy and its Effects
Author(s): Bruce D. Meyer, Dan T. Rosenbaum

Marriage and Economic Incentives: Evidence from a Welfare Experiment
Author(s): Wei-Yin Hu

Moving Hard-To-Employ Recipients into the Workforce
Author(s): U.S. General Accounting Office

Network Effects and Welfare Cultures
Author(s): Marianne Bertrand, Erzo F.P. Luttmer, Sendhil Mullainathan

Non-economic Factors in Early Welfare Caseload Declines
Author(s): Richard Bavier

Privileging the Participant: The Importance of Take-Up Rates In Social Welfare Evaluations
Author(s): Christina M. Gibson

Promises to Keep: Assessing Affective and Behavioral Qualities of Mother-Child Relationships in the New Chance Observational Study
Author(s): John R. Ogawa, Nancy S. Weinfield, Byron Egeland

Providing Mental Health Services to TANF Recipients: Program Design Choices and Implementation Challenges in Four States
Author(s): Michelle K. Derr, Sarah Douglas, LaDonna Pavetti

Racial and Ethnic Disparities in the Era of Devolution: A Persistant Challenge to Welfare Reform
Author(s): Ronald Walters

Renegotiating a Social Compact Based on Children and Families' Requirements for a Decent Life
Author(s): Ruby Takanishi

Reorganizing the Welfare State: New Administrative Models, Old Bureaucratic Problems
Author(s): Evelyn Brodkin

Several Suggestions for Improving the Work-Based Safety Net and Reducing Child Poverty
Author(s): Wendell Primus, Kristina Daugirdas

Short- and Long-Term Effects of AFDC Receipt on Families
Author(s): Rachel Dunifon

Small Towns and Welfare Reform: Iowa Case Studies and Families and Communities
Author(s): Cynthia Needles Fletcher, Jan L. Flora, Barbara J. Gaddis, Mary Winter, Jacquelyn S. Litt

Social Security and Institutions for Intergenerational, Intragenerational, and International Risk Sharing
Author(s): Robert J. Shiller

Substance Use Among Welfare Recipients: Trends and Policy Responses
Author(s): Rukmalie Jayakody, Kristin S. Seefeldt, Harold Pollack, Sheldon Danziger

Teen Motherhood, Labor Market Involvement and the Receipt of Public Assistance
Author(s): Phillip Levine, Diane M. Whitmore

Temporary Assistance for Needy Families, Food Stamp Program and Labor Force Participation: Decisions of Poor Households
Author(s): Sonya Huffman, Helen H. Jensen

The Dynamics of AFDC, Medicaid, and Food Stamps: A Preliminary Report
Author(s): Bong Joo Lee, Lucy Mackey-Bilaver, Robert M. Goerge, Yizu Yeh, Mairead Reidy

The Earned Income Tax Credit and Labor Market Participation of Families on Welfare
Author(s): V. Joseph Hotz, Charles H. Mullin, John Karl Scholz

The Effect of Family Planning Programs on the Fertility of Welfare Recipients: Evidence from Medicaid Claims
Author(s): Jennifer M. Mellor

The Effect of Welfare on Child Outcomes: What We Know and What We Need to Know
Author(s): Janet Currie

The Effects of After-tax Wages, Transfer Payments, and Child Care Expenses on Labor Market and Transfer Program Participation
Author(s): Scott Houser, Stacy Dickert-Conlin

The Effects of Children with Disabilities on Mothers' Exits from Welfare
Author(s): Peter Brandon, Dennis P. Hogan

The Effects of Higher Minimum Wages on Welfare Recipiency
Author(s): Mark D. Turner

The Effects of Higher Minimum Wages on Welfare Recipiency: Another Look
Author(s): Mark D. Turner, Alena Bicakova

The impact of welfare reform on families in data from the Survey of Income and Program Participation
Author(s): Richard Bavier

The Impact of Welfare Waivers on Female Headship Decisions
Author(s): John M. Fitzgerald, David Ribar

The Interaction between Food Stamps and Welfare Programs: An Empirical Model of Program Dynamics in the Cleveland Metropolitan Area, 1992-2002
Author(s): Laura Leete, Neil Bania

The Rise in Disability Recipiency and the Decline in Unemployment
Author(s): David H. Autor, Mark G. Duggan

The Spillover Effects of State Spending
Author(s): Katherine Baicker

Time Limits
Author(s): Robert A. Moffitt, LaDonna Pavetti

Tyesha's Dilemmas: Anthropological Ruminations on the Consequences of Welfare Reform
Author(s): Katherine S. Newman

Use of Means-Tested Transfer Programs by Immigrants, Their Children, and Their Children's Children
Author(s): Luojia Hu, Kristin Butcher

Wage Erosion, Economic Assessments, and Social Welfare Opinions
Author(s): Jason Barabas

Welfare in a Society of Permanent Work
Author(s): Ronald T. Haskins

Welfare Reform and Migration: Moving to Benefits; Moving from Restrictions
Author(s): Gordon De Jong, Deborah Graefe

Welfare Reform, Earnings, and Income: New Evidence from the Survey of Program Dynamics
Author(s): Laura Stander Connolly, Christine Enerson Marston

Welfare to Temporary Work: Implications for Labor Market Outcomes
Author(s): Carolyn J. Heinrich, Peter Mueser, Kenneth R. Troske

Welfare, Poverty, and Financial Strain In Urban African American Families with Adolescent Daughters
Author(s): Rebekah Levine Coley, P. Lindsay Chase-Lansdale

Welfare, the Earned Income Tax Credit, and the Labor Supply of Single Mothers
Author(s): Bruce D. Meyer, Dan T. Rosenbaum

What Causes Public Assistance Caseloads to Grow?
Author(s): Rebecca M. Blank

What Goes Up Must Come Down? Explaining Recent Changes in Public Assistance Caseloads
Author(s): Rebecca M. Blank

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When Financial Incentives Pay for Themselves: Early Findings from the Self-Sufficiency Project's Applicant Study
Author(s): Charles Michalopoulos, Philip K. Robins, David Card

Work and Family Circumstances and Child Trajectories: When (and For What) Does AFDC Receipt Matter?
Author(s): Elizabeth Menaghan, Susan Jekielek, Frank Mott, Elizabeth Cooksey

Work-Based Strategies for Hard-to-Employ TANF Recipients: A Preliminary Assessment of Program Models and Dimensions
Author(s): Debra A. Strong, LaDonna Pavetti