Single Mother Work and Poverty under Welfare Reform: Are Policy Impacts Different in Rural Areas?

Bruce Weber (), Mark Edwards and Greg Duncan ()
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Bruce Weber: Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics, Oregon State University
Mark Edwards: Oregon State University

Eastern Economic Journal, 2004, vol. 30, issue 1, 31-51

Abstract: During the 1990s, employment increased and poverty declined for single mothers in rural and urban areas. Our results suggest that, holding demographics constant, changes in welfare and social policy during this decade contributed to employment increases--but not to poverty reduction--for both rural and urban single mothers. If rural and urban demographics had been the same, the policy changes would have increased employment and reduced poverty more in rural areas. Without demographic controls, however, estimated policy impacts were no better in rural places. This suggests that rural demographic changes limited the policy impact on rural single-mother work and poverty.

Keywords: Demographics; Mothers; Policy; Single Mother; Welfare (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I38 J16 R23 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2004
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