Assessing welfare reform data: a comment on christopher

Robert Cherry

Feminist Economics, 2007, vol. 13, issue 2, 185-195

Abstract: This paper responds to Karen Christopher's recent Feminist Economics paper that posits that welfare leavers did not benefit much financially during the Clinton-era economic boom. On the contrary, this paper finds that child poverty rates declined dramatically as did material hardships while the situation worsened for only a very small share of mothers. These benefits came as a result of welfare reform rather than simply an outgrowth of the booming economy that enabled a greater share of welfare leavers to find employment and gain sizeable transfer payments compared to the pre-reform time period.

Keywords: Family policy; income support; welfare reform; JEL Codes: I38; I3; I (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2007
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DOI: 10.1080/13545700601184914

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