Joyce, Ted; Kaestner, Robert; Korenman, Sanders; … - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2004
As part of welfare reform efforts in the 1990s, twenty-three states implemented family caps, provisions that deny or …. However, this parity-specific pattern of births and abortions also occurred in states that implemented welfare reform with no … family cap. Thus, the effects of welfare reform may have differed between mothers and childless women, but there is little …