This paper analyzes the relationship between AFDC benefits and a single mother's propensity to reside in a subfamily-i.e., within another family rather than in her own independent household. We find that some states pay lower benefits to mothers living in subfamilies. In those states, a single...

The major purpose of this article is to estimate the potential earnings of black men supposing that they were to work full time, full year-that is, at their earnings capacity-at two widely separated points in time. The effect of changes in earnings capacity on changes in the distribution of...