Finance and Economics Discussion Series: The Effects of Welfare Reform and Related Policies on Single Mothers Welfare Use and Employment in the 1990s (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781288711406)

This paper examines how changes in tax policy, welfare programs, public health insurance, and economic conditions during the 1990s affected welfare use and employment among single mothers. Drawing on panel data from the Survey of Income and Program Participation, I give new estimates of the effects of specific policy changes and use those estimates to explain changes in economic behavior. The results suggest that Welfare Reform policies, the EITC, and improved economic conditions, in that order, were the primary determinants of changes in welfare use and employment between 1993 and 1999.

Author: Adam Looney
ISBN-10: 1288711409
ISBN-13: 9781288711406
Publisher: Bibliogov
Language: English
Published: 02/06/2013
Pages: 56
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.26lbs
Size: 9.69h x 7.44w x 0.12d