This study investigated the effects of welfare reform in the 1990s, which represented a major policy shift that … Child Self-Administered and Self-Report surveys, we exploited variation in the implementation of welfare reform across … states, over time, and across treatment and comparison groups to estimate the effects of welfare reform on parent …

The stated goals of welfare reform are to increase work, reduce dependency on welfare, reduce births outside marriage …, and to increase the formation of two parent families. However, welfare reform may also have indirect impacts on health. We … provide a comprehensive review of the literature on the impacts of welfare reform on health. We illustrate the main findings …

We study the effect of welfare reform, broadly defined to include social policy changes in the 1990s, on the material … well-being and expenditure patterns of poor single-mother families. Our research suggests that welfare reform did not … welfare reform has shifted family expenditures towards items that facilitate work outside the home, but, at least so far, has …

Existing research on the static effects of the manipulation of welfare program benefit parameters on labor supply has … of welfare reforms on labor supply may differ in different time periods with different populations and which sweep out … nonparametric specification of how changes in welfare program participation affect labor supply on the margin. Estimates of the …

support, but their use of strong mental health drugs increases dramatically. We develop a welfare analysis that considers … multiple margins of behavioral adjustment. We find that behavioral adjustments offset more than half of the private welfare …