This paper examines the impacts of recent Australian welfare to work reforms for low-income parents of school …-aged children who had been in receipt of Parenting Payment – the main welfare payment for this group – for at least one year … large, statistically significant and positive impacts on the hazard rates for exiting the welfare payment. Two thirds of …

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 …

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 …

been credited with increased employment for single mothers and a dramatic drop in welfare caseload. Our results show that …