Joint Center for Poverty Research
Working Papers

Welfare Reform

"Charitable Choice" and the Feasibility of Faith-Based Welfare Reform in Mississippi
Author(s): John P. Bartkowski, Helen A. Regis

Adolescent Outcomes, Poverty Status, and Welfare Reform: An Analysis based on the Survey of Program Dynamics
Author(s): Eileen Trzcinski, Jerry Brandell

Adolescents' School Enrollment and Employment:Effect of State Welfare Policies
Author(s): Lingxin Hao, Andrew Cherlin, Nan M. Astone

Aiding Welfare-to-work Transitions: Lessons from JTPA on the Cost-effectiveness of Education and Training Services
Author(s): Carolyn J. Heinrich

An Insider View: Knowledge and Opinions of Welfare from African American Girls in Poverty
Author(s): Ann M. Kuta, P. Lindsay Chase-Lansdale, Rebekah Levine Coley

Approaching the Limit: Early Lessons from Welfare Reform
Author(s): Sheldon Danziger

Assessing the Implications of Welfare Reform for Children's SSI Receipt
Author(s): Loretta E. Bass, Jane Mosley

Barriers to the Employment of Welfare Recipients
Author(s): Richard M. Tolman, Sandra K. Danziger, Mary Corcoran, Sheldon Danziger, Colleen M. Heflin, Ariel Kalil, Judith Levine, Daniel Rosen, Kristin S. Seefeldt, Kristine Siefert

Changes in Child Social Program Participation in the 1990s: Initial Findings from Illinois
Author(s): Robert M. Goerge, Bong Joo Lee

Changes in Food Security after Welfare Reform: Can We Identify a Policy Effect?
Author(s): Scott Winship, Christopher Jencks

Changing Caseloads: Macro Influences and Micro Composition
Author(s): Robert A. Moffitt, David Stevens

Contracting Welfare Reform: Uncertainties of Capacity-Building Within Disjointed Federalism
Author(s): Evelyn Brodkin, Carolyn Fuqua, Katarina H. Thoren

Deterioration of Child Welfare Families Under Conditions of Welfare Reform
Author(s): Kathleen Wells, Shenyang Guo, Robert D. Shafran, Susan Pearlmutter

Did Welfare Leavers' Employment Levels and Job Characteristics Change During TANF Implementation: An analysis using SIPP 1996-2000
Author(s): Claudia J. Coulton, Younghee Lim, Thomas Cook, Nina Lalich

Disadvantage Among Families Remaining on Welfare
Author(s): Robert A. Moffitt, Andrew Cherlin

Displacement and Wage Effects of Welfare Reform
Author(s): Timothy J. Bartik

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Do Minimum Wage Increases Lower the Probability that Low-Skilled Workers Will Receive Fringe Benefits?
Author(s): Anne Royalty

Does it Pay to Move from Welfare to Work?
Author(s): Sheldon Danziger, Colleen M. Heflin, Mary Corcoran, Elizabeth Oltmans

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Does the Loss of Welfare Income Increase the Risk of Involvement with the Child Welfare System?
Author(s): Kristen Shook Slack

Domestic Violence and Economic Well-Being Of Current and Former Welfare Recipients
Author(s): Richard M. Tolman, Sandra K. Danziger, Daniel Rosen

Employer Demand for Welfare Recipients By Race
Author(s): Harry J. Holzer, Michael A. Stoll

Experimenting With Welfare Reform: The Political Boundaries Of Policy Analysis
Author(s): Evelyn Brodkin, Alexander Kaufman

Financial Incentives for Increasing Work and Income Among Low-Income Families
Author(s): Rebecca M. Blank, David Card, Philip K. Robins

Food Insecurity and Public Assistance
Author(s): George J. Borjas

For Richer or Poorer?
Author(s): Wendy Sigle-Rushton, Sara McLanahan

Fragile Families and Welfare Reform
Author(s): Irwin Garfinkel, Sara McLanahan, Kristen Harknett

Fragile Families and Welfare Reform: An Introduction
Author(s): Irwin Garfinkel, Sara McLanahan, Marta Tienda, Jeanne Brooks-Gunn

Geographic Differences in AFDC and Food Stamp Caseloads in the Welfare Reform Era
Author(s): James P. Ziliak, David N. Figlio

How Developmental Psychologists Think About Family Process and Child Development in Low Income Families
Author(s): P. Lindsay Chase-Lansdale

Immigration and the Food Stamp Program
Author(s): George J. Borjas

Implementations of Welfare Changes for Parents of Young Children
Author(s): Jeanne Brooks-Gunn, Judith Smith, Lisa Berlin, Kyunghee Lee

Is a Family-focused Program More Effective in Helping Low-Income Parents Enter the Workforce? Insights from a Multimethod Evaluation of the Jobs for Youth/Full Family Partnership Demonstration
Author(s): Carolyn J. Heinrich

Is There an Effect of Incremental Welfare Benefits on Fertility Behavior? A Look at the Family Cap
Author(s): Melissa Schettini Kearney

Job Performance and Retention Among Welfare Recipients
Author(s): Michael A. Stoll, Douglas Wissoker, Harry J. Holzer

Location and the Low Income Experience: Analyses of Program Dynamics in the Iowa Family Investment Program
Author(s): Helen H. Jensen, Steven

Making Single Mothers Work: Recent Tax and Welfare Policy and its Effects
Author(s): Bruce D. Meyer, Dan T. Rosenbaum

Marital Status and Full-time/Part-time Work Status in Child Care Choices: Changing the Rules of the Game
Author(s): Rachel Connelly, Jean Kimmel

Maternal work behavior under welfare reform: How does the transition from welfare to work affect child development?
Author(s): Rachel Dunifon, Ariel Kalil, Sandra K. Danziger

Moving Hard-To-Employ Recipients into the Workforce
Author(s): U.S. General Accounting Office

Non-economic Factors in Early Welfare Caseload Declines
Author(s): Richard Bavier

Notes on How Economists Think . . .
Author(s): Robert A. Pollak

Privileging the Participant: The Importance of Take-Up Rates In Social Welfare Evaluations
Author(s): Christina M. Gibson

Program Redesign by States in the Wake of Welfare Reform: Making Sense of the Effects of Devolution
Author(s): Alan Weil

Prospects for 'Job Matching' in the Welfare-to-Work Transition: Labor Market Capacity for Sustaining the Absorption of Mississippi's TANF Recipients
Author(s): Frank Howell

Providing Mental Health Services to TANF Recipients: Program Design Choices and Implementation Challenges in Four States
Author(s): Michelle K. Derr, Sarah Douglas, LaDonna Pavetti

Racial and Ethnic Disparities in the Era of Devolution: A Persistant Challenge to Welfare Reform
Author(s): Ronald Walters

Reducing Food Stamp and Welfare Caseloads in the South: Are Rural Areas Less Likely to Succeed Than Urban Centers?
Author(s): Mark Henry, Darren Hudson, Willis Lewis, Lynn Reinschmiedt

Rural America in Transition: Poverty and Welfare at the Turn of the 21st Century
Author(s): Leif Jensen, Dan Lichter

Rural Perceptions of Poverty & the PRWORA: An Ethnographic Study of Black and White Rural Church Responses
Author(s): Katherine Amato-von Hemert

Sanctions and Exits: What do States Know About Families Who Leave Welfare Because of Sanctions and Time Limits
Author(s): Jack Tweedie

Self Sufficiency, Parenting Adequacy, and Child Wellbeing: Lessons from New Chance, the Teenage Parent Demonstration, and LEAP
Author(s): Nancy Reichman, Sara McLanahan

Shared Parenting in Fragile Families
Author(s): Marcia J. Carlson, Sara McLanahan

Small Towns and Welfare Reform: Iowa Case Studies and Families and Communities
Author(s): Cynthia Needles Fletcher, Jan L. Flora, Barbara J. Gaddis, Mary Winter, Jacquelyn S. Litt

Substance Use Among Welfare Recipients: Trends and Policy Responses
Author(s): Rukmalie Jayakody, Kristin S. Seefeldt, Harold Pollack, Sheldon Danziger

The Determinants and Consequences of Child Care Subsidy Receipt by Low-Income Families
Author(s): David Blau, Erdal Tekin

The Effect of Increasing Welfare Mothers' Education on their Young Children's Academic Problems and School Readiness
Author(s): Katherine Magnuson, Sharon McGroder

The Effect of Pre-PRWORA Waivers on AFDC Caseloads and Female Earnings, Income, and Labor Force Behavior
Author(s): Robert A. Moffitt

The Effect of Welfare Reform on the Family: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
Author(s): Frank F. Furstenberg

The Effect of Welfare Reform on the Incomes and Earnings of Low-Income Families: Evidence from the Current Population Survey
Author(s): Laura Stander Connolly

The Effects of Children with Disabilities on Mothers' Exits from Welfare
Author(s): Peter Brandon, Dennis P. Hogan

The Effects of Welfare Reform in Rural Minnesota: Experimental Findings from the Minnesota Family Investment Program
Author(s): Lisa Gennetian, Cynthia Miller, Cindy Redcross

The Effects of Welfare Reform: The Living Conditions of Single Mothers in the 1980s and 1990s
Author(s): Bruce D. Meyer, James Xavier Sullivan

The Impact of Welfare Reform Across Metropolitan and Nonmetropolitan Areas: A Nonparametric Analysis
Author(s): Jeffrey R. Alwang, Gautam Hazarika, Bradford Mills

The impact of welfare reform on families in data from the Survey of Income and Program Participation
Author(s): Richard Bavier

The Impact of Welfare Waivers on Female Headship Decisions
Author(s): John M. Fitzgerald, David Ribar

The Interaction of Welfare-Use and Employment Dynamics In Rural and Agricultural California Counties
Author(s): Henry Brady, Mary H. Sprague, Fredric C. Gey, Michael L. Wiseman

The Relationship between Metropolitan and Nonmetropolitan Locations, Changing Welfare Policies, and the Employment of Single Mothers
Author(s): Signe-Mary McKernan, Robert I. Lerman, Nancy Pindus, Jesse Valente

Time Limits
Author(s): Robert A. Moffitt, LaDonna Pavetti

Time Limits and Welfare Reform: New Estimates of the Number and Characteristics of Affected Families
Author(s): Greg Duncan, Kathleen Mullan Harris, Johanne Boisjoly

Transiting from Welfare to Work: No Bus, No Car, No Way
Author(s): Cynthia Needles Fletcher, Steven Garasky, Helen H. Jensen

Tyesha's Dilemmas: Anthropological Ruminations on the Consequences of Welfare Reform
Author(s): Katherine S. Newman

Use of Means-Tested Transfer Programs by Immigrants, Their Children, and Their Children's Children
Author(s): Luojia Hu, Kristin Butcher

Welfare Dynamics under Time Limits
Author(s): Jeff Grogger, Charles Michalopoulos

Welfare in a Society of Permanent Work
Author(s): Ronald T. Haskins

Welfare Reform and Child Well-being
Author(s): Greg Duncan, P. Lindsay Chase-Lansdale

Welfare Reform and Household Saving
Author(s): Erik Hurst, James P. Ziliak

Welfare Reform and Long-Term Stability in Food Security among Children of Immigrants
Author(s): Jennifer Van Hook

Welfare Reform and Migration: Moving to Benefits; Moving from Restrictions
Author(s): Gordon De Jong, Deborah Graefe

Welfare Reform, Earnings, and Income: New Evidence from the Survey of Program Dynamics
Author(s): Laura Stander Connolly, Christine Enerson Marston

Welfare Reform, Fertility and Father Involvement
Author(s): Sara McLanahan, Marcia J. Carlson

Welfare Reform, Management Systems, and Policy Theories of Child Well-Being
Author(s): Thomas Gais, Cathy M. Johnson

Welfare Reform, Poverty, and Families with Young Children
Author(s): Kristi L. Hannan, Thomas R. Chibucos

Welfare Reform, the Business Cycle, and the Decline in AFDC Caseloads
Author(s): David N. Figlio, James P. Ziliak

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Welfare Waivers and Non-Marital Childbearing
Author(s): Ann E. Horvath-Rose, H. Elizabeth Peters

Welfare-to-Work Policy: Employer Hiring and Retention of Former Welfare Recipients
Author(s): Julia Lane, David Stevens

What Do Welfare-to-Work Demonstrations Reveal to Welfare Reformers?
Author(s): John V. Pepper

What Will the States Do When Jobs Are Not Plentiful? Policy and Implementation Challenges
Author(s): LaDonna Pavetti

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When Financial Incentives Pay for Themselves: Early Findings from the Self-Sufficiency Project's Applicant Study
Author(s): Charles Michalopoulos, Philip K. Robins, David Card

Where All the Counties Are Above Average: Top Down Versus Bottom Up Perspectives of Welfare Reform
Author(s): Ann Tickamyer, Julie White, Barry Tadlock, Debra Henderson

Whose Job Is It? Employers' Views on Welfare Reform
Author(s): June Heineman, Greg Owen, Ellen Shelton, Justine Nelson-Christinedaughter, Corinna Roy, Amy Bush Stevens

Work, Income and Material Hardship After Welfare Reform
Author(s): Sandra K. Danziger, Mary Corcoran, Sheldon Danziger, Colleen M. Heflin

Work-Based Strategies for Hard-to-Employ TANF Recipients: A Preliminary Assessment of Program Models and Dimensions
Author(s): Debra A. Strong, LaDonna Pavetti