This article summarizes the welfare reform legislation passed in the summer of 1996, and discusses the expected state changes in public assistance programs that that legislation will produce. Four key research questions that the new law presents to social scientists are described: (1) Can the...

This paper summarizes recent research in economics that investigates differentials by race and gender in the labor market. We start with a statistical overview of the trends in labor market outcomes by race, gender and Hispanic origin, including some simple regressions on the determinants of...