Welfare reform and its long-term consequences for America's poor

Leading poverty experts address the longer-term effects of the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Ziliak, James Patrick (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Cambridge University Press , c2009
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • 1. What we know, what we don't know, and what we need to know about welfare reform
  • 2. Welfare reform and the level and composition of income
  • 3. How have expansions in the earned income tax credit affected family expenditures?
  • 4. How families are doing nine years after welfare reform: 2005 evidence from the three-city study
  • 5. The impact of welfare reform on leaver characteristics, employment, and recidivism
  • 6. A reexamination of the impact of welfare reform on health insurance among less-skilled women
  • 7. How welfare policies affect child and adolescent school performance: investigating pathways of influence with experimental data
  • 8. The effects of welfare and child support policies on the incidence of marriage following a nonmarital birth
  • 9. Welfare reform and health among the children of immigrants
  • 10. Mismatches and unmet need: access to social services in urban and rural America