motherhood on child skill development, following children who entered primary school when their mothers were affected by the …Worldwide, single mothers are profoundly time and income constrained, making them heavily reliant on government … transfers. We examine how welfare reforms that introduced mutual obligations affected the economic position of single mothers …

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 …

We investigate the role of employment in explaining changes in the mental health of single mothers compared to … partnered mothers and single childless women during the period of welfare reform in the UK. We employ a time allocation … health for all women but the association was not statistically significant for single mothers. Mental health inequalities …

Birth cohort of the Early Childhood Longitudinal Study, the OLS results show that children of working mothers score higher …This paper assesses the short-run impact of first-year maternal employment on low-income children's cognitive … variation in the amount of time that mothers can remain home with a newborn child. I use this variation to estimate local …

-educated single women with children do change their residential locations in response to changes in welfare policies and labor market …