What Has Welfare Reform Accomplished? Impacts on Welfare Participation, Employment, Income, Poverty, and Family Structure

Robert Schoeni and Rebecca Blank

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Abstract: This paper evaluated the effectiveness of recent welfare reforms, investigating the effects of both state-specific waivers in the early 1990s and the 1996 federal reform legislation. Unlike earlier work, we analyze a wide array of indicators, including welfare participation, labor market involvement, earnings, income and poverty, and family formtion. While no single methodology is entirely satisfying, the results in this paper are convincing in part because they are consistent across alternative approaches.

Keywords: SOCIAL WELFARE; PUBLIC EXPENDITURES; PUBLIC POLICY (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D60 H53 I38 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 43 pages
Date: 2000
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