Joint Center for Poverty Research
Working Papers

State Policy (and waivers)

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

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

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

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

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

Improving Child Welfare Agency Performance through Fiscal Reforms: An Assessment of Recent Proposals
Author: Rob Geen

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

Investigating Policy's 'Practical' Meaning: Street-Level Research on Welfare Policy
Author: Evelyn Brodkin

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

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

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

Program Redesign by States in the Wake of Welfare Reform: Making Sense of the Effects of Devolution
Author: Alan Weil

Prospects for 'Job Matching' in the Welfare-to-Work Transition: Labor Market Capacity for Sustaining the Absorption of Mississippi's TANF Recipients
Author: Frank Howell

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

Reducing Food Stamp and Welfare Caseloads in the South: Are Rural Areas Less Likely to Succeed Than Urban Centers?
Author: Mark Henry, Darren Hudson, Willis Lewis, Lynn Reinschmiedt

Sanctions and Exits: What do States Know About Families Who Leave Welfare Because of Sanctions and Time Limits
Author: Jack Tweedie

State Fiscal Substitution Between the Federal Food Stamp Program and AFDC, Medicaid, and SSI
Author: Howard Chernick

The Consequences of Merit Aid
Author: Susan M. Dynarski

The Effect of Pre-PRWORA Waivers on AFDC Caseloads and Female Earnings, Income, and Labor Force Behavior
Author: Robert A. Moffitt

The Effect of Welfare Reform on the Incomes and Earnings of Low-Income Families: Evidence from the Current Population Survey
Author: Laura Stander Connolly

The Effects of Welfare Reform in Rural Minnesota: Experimental Findings from the Minnesota Family Investment Program
Author: Lisa Gennetian, Cynthia Miller, Cindy Redcross

The Impact of Social Policy and Economic Activity Throughout the Fertility Decision Tree
Author: Phillip Levine

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

The Measurement of Medicaid Coverage in the SIPP: Evidence from California, 1990-1996
Author: David Card, Andrew K. G. Hildreth, Lara Dawn Shore-Sheppard

The Spillover Effects of State Spending
Author: Katherine Baicker

Using Administrative Data to Evaluate the Ohio JOBS Student Retention Program
Author: Kevin Hollenbeck, Jean Kimmel, Randall W. Eberts

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

Welfare Waivers and Non-Marital Childbearing
Author: Ann E. Horvath-Rose, H. Elizabeth Peters

What Do Welfare-to-Work Demonstrations Reveal to Welfare Reformers?
Author: John V. Pepper

Whose Job Is It? Employers' Views on Welfare Reform
Author: June Heineman, Greg Owen, Ellen Shelton, Justine Nelson-Christinedaughter, Corinna Roy, Amy Bush Stevens

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