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173: The Relationship between Wage Growth and Wage Levels

Tricia Lynn Gladden and Christopher R. Taber

172: Do Minimum Wage Increases Lower the Probability that Low-Skilled Workers Will Receive Fringe Benefits?

Anne Royalty

171: Public Assistance and Private Support of Immigrants

Lingxin Hao

170: Welfare Entries among Children Living With Grandparents

Peter Brandon

169: Early Childhood Intervention Programs: What Do We Know?

Janet Currie

168: Using Sibling Samples to Assess the Effect of Childhood Family Income on Completed Schooling

Dan Maurice Levy and Greg Duncan

167: Games Daughters and Parents Play: Teenage Childbearing, Parental Reputation, and Strategic Transfers

Lingxin Hao, V. Joseph Hotz and Ginger Zhe Jin

166: Why Welfare Caseloads Fluctuate: A Review of Research on AFDC, SSI, and the Food Stamps Program

Susan Mayer

165: Tax Reform and Automatic Stabilization

Thomas Kniesner and James Ziliak

164: The Effect of Medicaid Expansions for Low-Income Children on Medicaid Participation and Insurance Coverage: Evidence from the SIPP

John Ham and Lara Shore-Sheppard

163: Poverty, Food Stamp Program Participation, and Health: Estimates from the NLSY97

Diane Gibson

162: Investigating Policy's 'Practical' Meaning: Street-Level Research on Welfare Policy

Evelyn Brodkin

161: The Sexual Activity and Birth Control Use of American Teenagers

Phillip Levine

160: Evaluating In-Work Benefit Reform: The Working Families Tax Credit in the U.K

Richard Blundell, Alan Duncan, Julian McCrae and Costas Meghir

159: Neighborhood Effects on Economic Self-Sufficiency: Evidence from a Randomized Housing-Mobility Experiment

Jens Otto Ludwig, Greg Duncan and Joshua Pinkston

158: Urban Poverty and Juvenile Crime: Evidence from a Randomized Housing-Mobility Experiment

Jens Otto Ludwig, Greg Duncan and Paul Hirschfield

157: Teenage Childbearing and Its Life Cycle Consequences: Exploiting a Natural Experiment

V. Joseph Hotz, Susan Williams McElroy and Seth G. Sanders

156: Medicaid Managed Care: Effects on Children's Medicaid Coverage and Utilization

Janet Currie and John Fahr

155: The Spillover Effects of State Spending

Katherine Baicker

154: Policies to Foster Human Capital

James Heckman

153: Outsourcing at Will: Unjust Dismissal Doctrine and the Growth of Temporary Help Employment

David Autor

152: Making Single Mothers Work: Recent Tax and Welfare Policy and its Effects

Bruce Meyer and Dan Rosenbaum

151: The Role of the Family in Determining Youth Employment

Sabrina Pabilonia

150: Explaining Why So Many Households Do Not Save

Annamaria Lusardi

149: The Collision of Tax and Welfare Politics: The Political History of the Earned Income Tax Credit, 1969 - 1999

Dennis J. Ventry

148: Sanctions and Exits: What do States Know About Families Who Leave Welfare Because of Sanctions and Time Limits

Jack Tweedie

147: Should Juvenile Offenders be Tried as Adults? A Developmental Perspective on Changing Legal Policies

Laurence Steinberg

146: Ability, Educational Ranks, and Labor Market Trends: The Effects of Shifts in the Skill Composition of Educational Groups

Dan Rosenbaum

145: Welfare in a Society of Permanent Work

Ronald T. Haskins

144: The Earned Income Credit and Durable Goods Purchases

Lisa Barrow and Leslie McGranahan

143: Understanding the Employment Experiences and Migration Patterns of Rural Youth and Young Adults

Steven Garasky

142: Rural Perceptions of Poverty & the PRWORA: An Ethnographic Study of Black and White Rural Church Responses

Katherine Amato- von Hemert

141: How Did the Increase in Economic Inequality between 1970 and 1990 Affect American Children's Educational Attainment?

Susan Mayer

140: Renegotiating a Social Compact Based on Children and Families' Requirements for a Decent Life

Ruby Takanishi

139: The EITC: Expectation, Knowledge, Use and Economic and Social Mobility

Timothy M. Smeeding, Katherin Ross Phillips and Michael O'Connor

138: How Families View and Use the EITC: Advanced Payment versus Lump-sum Delivery

Jennifer L. Romich and Thomas Weisner

137: The Consequences of Food Insecurity for Child Well-Being: An Analysis of Children's School Achievement, Psychological Well-Being, and Health

Lori L. Reid

136: Several Suggestions for Improving the Work-Based Safety Net and Reducing Child Poverty

Wendell Primus and Kristina Daugirdas

135: Does the Minimum Wage Affect Welfare Caseloads?

Marianne Page, Joanne Spetz and Jane Millar

134: Using the EITC to Increase Family Earnings: New Evidence and a Comparison with the Minimum Wage

David Neumark and William Wascher

133: When Financial Incentives Pay for Themselves: Early Findings from the Self-Sufficiency Project's Applicant Study

Charles Michalopoulos, Philip Robins and David Card

132: EITC Noncompliance: the Misreporting of Children and the Size of the EITC

Janet McCubbin

131: Who are the Ineligible EITC Recipients?

Jeffrey Liebman

130: Children's Welfare Exposure and Subsequent Development

Phillip Levine and David Zimmerman

129: The Patterns of Food Stamp and WIC Participation and Their Effects on Health of Low-Income Children

Lucy Mackey-Bilaver, Robert M. Goerge and Bong Joo Lee

128: Welfare Waivers and Non-Marital Childbearing

Ann E. Horvath-Rose and Elizabeth Peters

127: Measuring the Effect of the EITC on Marriage Penalties and Bonuses

Janet Holtzblatt and Robert Rebelein

126: Are There Economic Barriers to Visiting a Doctor?

Susan Mayer

125: Welfare Dynamics under Time Limits

Jeffrey Grogger and Charles Michalopoulos

124: The Impact of the Earned Income Tax Credit and Social Policy Reforms on Work, Marriage, and Living Arrangements

David T. Ellwood