While the Help for Working Parents (HWP) proposal represents a fundamental and costly change in the nation's safety net for poor families with children, it contains a variety of attributes that should give us pause. Its presumptions regarding the expectations for women's work should be made...

We discuss and critique the main lines of economic research that address the economic status and behavior of the working-age population of people with disabilities. We define this population as those with physical or mental limitations that impede their daily activities or their productivity on...

Using a propensity score matching approach coupled with difference-in-differences regression analysis, we estimate the effect of receiving a low-income housing voucher on the employment and earnings, mobility, neighborhood quality, household/family composition and childcare utilization of a...

Social scientists have increasingly turned their attention to understanding the linkages between the economic position of parents and that of their children. At its core, these linkages lies behind fundamental questions regarding how our society and its economy works, and how society can alter...

Retirement years are a precarious time for many older Americans. Even if successful in accumulating resources expected to be sufficient to maintain their pre-retirement standard of living, many retirees face unexpected adverse health shocks after retirement. Because of the uncertainty of shocks...

We build on cross-national research to examine the relationships underlying estimates of relative intergenerational mobility in the United States and Great Britain using harmonized longitudinal data and focusing on men. We examine several pathways by which parental status is related to offspring...

Discusses the need inability of past administrations to pass any welfare reform and gives an overview of an antipoverty policy. Shows that the poverty problem goes beyond tax reform and includes education, crime and violence.

In this paper we estimate the effect of housing voucher receipt on the composition of recipient households and the quality of the neighborhoods in which recipient households reside. Drawing on a dataset that contains extensive information on a large and diverse panel of low-income families for...