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来源类型 | Working Paper |
规范类型 | 报告 |
DOI | 10.3386/w7627 |
来源ID | Working Paper 7627 |
What has Welfare Reform Accomplished? Impacts on Welfare Participation, Employment, Income, Poverty, and Family Structure | |
Robert F. Schoeni; Rebecca M. Blank | |
发表日期 | 2000-03-01 |
出版年 | 2000 |
语种 | 英语 |
摘要 | This paper evaluates the effectiveness of recent welfare reforms, investigating the effects of both state-specific waivers in the early 1990s and the 1996 federal reform legislation. Unlike earlier work, we analyze a wide array of indicators, including welfare participation, labor market involvement, earnings, income and poverty, and family formation. While no single methodology is entirely satisfying, the results in this paper are convincing in part because they are consistent across alternative approaches. We find strong evidence that these policy changes reduced public assistance participation and increased family earnings. The result was a rise in total family income and a decline in poverty. The gains from the 1996 reforms were not as broadly distributed across the distribution of less-skilled women as were the effects of waivers. Waivers also increased labor market involvement among the less-skilled, but the 1996 reforms had little additional impact on work behavior after controlling for economic forces. These policies also appeared to have an impact on family structure. |
主题 | Health, Education, and Welfare ; Poverty and Wellbeing |
URL | https://www.nber.org/papers/w7627 |
来源智库 | National Bureau of Economic Research (United States) |
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资源类型 | 智库出版物 |
条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/565178 |
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Robert F. Schoeni,Rebecca M. Blank. What has Welfare Reform Accomplished? Impacts on Welfare Participation, Employment, Income, Poverty, and Family Structure. 2000. |
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