The UK Universal Credit (UC) welfare reform simplified the benefits system whilst strongly incentivising a return to … requirements dominate any positive welfare effects of the reduced administrative burden of claiming benefits …

We estimate the effect of welfare reform on the intergenerational transmission of welfare participation and related … Dynamics. Because states implemented welfare reform at different times starting in 1992, the cross-state variation over time … permits us to quasi-experimentally separate out the effect of mothers' welfare participation during childhood on daughters …

Recent studies have used a distributional analysis of welfare reform experiments suggesting that some individuals … reduce hours in order to opt into welfare, an example of behavioral-induced participation. Using data on Connecticut's Jobs …. We offer a simple explanation for this: women assigned to Jobs First incur welfare participation costs to labor supply at …

The study of welfare participation in the U.S. prior to the 1996 welfare reform act and even afterward has focused on …, there is no study yet that tests for difference in welfare usage among immigrant groups and immigrant status. We do not … expect welfare usage to differ among immigrant groups if we control for the factors that should predict welfare usage …

especially for women with more than basic formal education. For those with lower education the welfare programs are shown to have …

Immigration policy continues to be at the forefront of policy discussions, and the use of welfare benefits by … immigrants has been hotly debated. In 1996, Congress enacted welfare reform legislation (PRWORA), which denied the use of most … means-tested assistance to non-citizens and lowered immigrant welfare dramatically. While Federal legislation imposed strict …

The paper evaluates the distributional effects on earnings and income of requiring young welfare recipients to fulfill … geographically staggered reform in Norway. The reform reduced welfare uptake and for women had large, positive effects in the lower … more than offset reduced welfare benefits. Fewer welfare payments and smaller caseloads make the policy highly cost-effective …

We study the effect of reducing welfare assistance on migrants# long-term integration in Australia. The policy … announced after their arrival. Using a regression discontinuity design and 21 years of administrative welfare data, we find … significant reductions in welfare receipt, where the gap widened over time, and stabilized in the long run. Benefit receipt …