In 1999 general assistance recipients in New York City were required to participate in a job training and outplacement assistance program. Initially, recipients were enrolled in 'waves' due to capacity constraints. The program's impact is identified using a quasiexperiment in which selectees are...

Starting in 1999, welfare recipients were required to participate in a job training and outplacement assistance program. Initially, recipients were enrolled in biweekly waves. I identify the effect of the program using an innovative natural experiment in which enrollees are compared to...

Starting in 1995, welfare recipients were required to participate in a mandatory workfare program. Initially, recipients were enrolled in weekly waves. I identify the effect of enrolling recipients (who were previously unexposed to welfare reform) in the program using a natural experiment in...

General Assistance (GA) programs are virtually unstudied. Yet, GA programs serve an economically vulnerable, non-trivial population that should be of interest. To begin to address this shortcoming, two welfare-to-work programs, in which GA recipients participated, are studied. Using a...