How an Earnings Supplement Can Affect the Marital Behaviour of welfare Recipients: Evidence from the Self-Sufficiency Project

K. Harknett and L.A. Gennetian

Working Papers from Gouvernement du Canada - Human Resources Development

Abstract: This paper uses data from the experimental evaluation of SSP to examine the effect on marriage of an alternative to the mainstream cash welfare system, an alternative that is contingent on work and removes the usual welfare marriage disincentive on marital behaviour among single-parent welfare recipients

Keywords: EMPLOYMENT; FAMILY; INCOME; MARIAGE (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I30 I38 J12 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 43 pages
Date: 2001
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