State and federal reforms of the 1990s transformed the U.S. cash assistance program for single parents and their children. Despite an extensive literature examining these changes and their impacts, there have been few studies that consider the effects of these reforms from the perspective of the...

Welfare reform has transformed the U.S. cash assistance program for single parents and their children. Although there remains substantial uncertainty about the importance of reform in producing the subsequent decline in the welfare caseload, even less is known about its impact on the experiences...

In the early 1990s, New Zealand cut benefits and tightened eligibility criteria under its main social welfare programmes. These benefit changes varied substantially across both time and demographic groups. Synthetic panel data are used econometrically to isolate the effects of these reforms on...