Children in the Vanguard of the U.S. Welfare State: A Review of Janet Currie's The Invisible Safety Net and Jane Waldfogel's What Children Need

Eugene Smolensky

Journal of Economic Literature, 2007, vol. 45, issue 4, 1011-1023

Abstract: Policy driven social science research intended to influence the future of the U.S. welfare state has, during the past decade, emphasized improving the life-chances of children, particularly children disadvantaged at birth by the socioeconomic status of their parents. This essay samples that literature, discussing in detail the contents and implications of two recent largely synthetic volumes from this genre.

JEL-codes: I38 J13 P16 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2007
Note: DOI: 10.1257/jel.45.4.1011
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