Bitler, Marianne P.; Gelbach, Jonah B.; Hoynes, Hilary W.; … - Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta - 2002
The goal of the 1996 Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act (PRWORA) was to end the dependency of needy parents on government benefits, in part by promoting marriage; the pre-reform welfare system was widely believed to discourage marriage because it primarily provided...
