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123: State Fiscal Substitution Between the Federal Food Stamp Program and AFDC, Medicaid, and SSI

Howard Chernick

121: Immigration and the Food Stamp Program

George Borjas

120: Program Redesign by States in the Wake of Welfare Reform: Making Sense of the Effects of Devolution

Alan Weil

119: African American Adolescent Girls in Impoverished Communities: Quality of Parenting and Adolescent Outcomes

Laura D. Pittman and P. Lindsay Chase-Lansdale

118: An Insider View: Knowledge and Opinions of Welfare from African American Girls in Poverty

Rebekah Levine Coley, Ann M. Kuta and P. Lindsay Chase-Lansdale

117: Sexual Intercourse and Pregnancy among African American Adolescent Girls in High-Poverty Neighborhoods: The Role of Family and Perceived Community Environment

Mignon R. Moore and P. Lindsay Chase-Lansdale

116: Welfare, Poverty, and Financial Strain In Urban African American Families with Adolescent Daughters

Rebekah Levine Coley and P. Lindsay Chase-Lansdale

115: MY CHILDREN COME FIRST: Welfare-Reliant Women's Post-TANF Views of Work-Family Tradeoffs, and Marriage

Ellen K. Scott, Kathryn Edin, Andrew S. London and Joan Maya Mazelis

114: Work, Income and Material Hardship After Welfare Reform

Sandra K. Danziger, Mary Corcoran, Sheldon Danziger and Colleen M. Heflin

113: Fragile Families and Welfare Reform

Irwin Garfinkel, Sara McLanahan and Kristen Harknett

112: Welfare Reform, Management Systems, and Policy Theories of Child Well-Being

Thomas Gais and Cathy M. Johnson

109: Means And Ends: A Comparative Study Of Empirical Methods For Investigating Governance And Performance

Carolyn Heinrich and Laurence E. Lynn

108: Gender Inequality in Poverty in Affluent Nations: The Role of Single Motherhood and the State

Karen Christopher, Paula England, Sara McLanahan, Katherin Ross Phillips and Timothy M. Smeeding

107: Governance And Performance: The Influence of Program Structure and Management on Job Training Partnership Act (JTPA) Program Outcomes

Carolyn Heinrich and Laurence E. Lynn

106: Rising Above Poverty: The Consequences of Poverty Status and Individual Characteristics on Earnings

C. Andre Mizell

105: What Do Welfare-to-Work Demonstrations Reveal to Welfare Reformers?

John Pepper

104: Legalized Abortion and Crime

John Donohue and Steven Levitt

103: Can Anti-Poverty Programs Improve Family Functioning and Enhance Children's Well-Being?

Aletha C. Huston, Robert Granger, Greg Duncan and Vonnie McLoyd

102: EITC Eligibility, Participation, and Compliance Rates for AFDC Households: Evidence from the California Caseload

Carolyn J. Hill, V. Joseph Hotz, Charles H. Mullin and John Scholz

101: Are There Returns to the Wages of Young Men from Working While in School?

V. Joseph Hotz, Lixin Xu, Marta Tienda and Avner Ahituv

100: What Do Low-Income Single Mothers Say About Marriage?

Kathryn Edin

99: Job Instability and Earnings and Income Consequences: Evidence from SIPP: 1983-1995

John Fitzgerald

98: "Charitable Choice" and the Feasibility of Faith-Based Welfare Reform in Mississippi

John P. Bartkowski and Helen A. Regis

97: Marital Status and Full-time/Part-time Work Status in Child Care Choices: Changing the Rules of the Game

Rachel Connelly and Jean Kimmel

96: The Characteristics of Mothers Separated from a Young Child

Joseph Swingle

95: The Effects of Higher Minimum Wages on Welfare Recipiency

Mark D. Turner

94: Welfare Reform, Poverty, and Families with Young Children

Kristi L. Hannan and Thomas R. Chibucos

93: Residential and Household Poverty of American Indians on the Wind River Indian Reservation

Judith Antell, Audie Blevins, Katherine R. Jensen and Garth M. Massey

92: Income and Job Market Outcomes After Welfare: 1990-1995

Thomas P. Vartanian and Philip M. Gleason

91: Time Limits

Robert Moffitt and LaDonna Pavetti

90: Barriers to the Employment of Welfare Recipients

Sandra K. Danziger, Mary Corcoran, Sheldon Danziger, Colleen M. Heflin, Ariel Kalil, Judith Levine, Daniel Rosen, Kristin S. Seefeldt, Kristine Siefert and Richard M. Tolman

89: The Effect of Pre-PRWORA Waivers on AFDC Caseloads and Female Earnings, Income, and Labor Force Behavior

Robert Moffitt

88: Drug Dealing and Legitimate Self-Employment

Robert Fairlie

87: The Long-Term Costs of Job Displacement Among Young Workers

Lori G. Kletzer and Robert Fairlie

86: Risk Sharing and Industrial Specialization: Regional and International Evidence

Sebnem Kalemli-Ozcan, Bent Sorensen and Oved Yosha

85: The Employment, Earnings, and Income of Less Skilled Workers Over the Business Cycle

Hilary Hoynes

84: Teen Motherhood, Labor Market Involvement and the Receipt of Public Assistance

Phillip Levine and Diane M. Whitmore

83: Marriage and Economic Incentives: Evidence from a Welfare Experiment

Wei-Yin Hu

82: How Developmental Psychologists Think About Family Process and Child Development in Low Income Families

P. Lindsay Chase-Lansdale

81: Public Service Employment and Mandatory Work: A Policy Whose Time Has Come and Gone and Come Again?

David T. Ellwood and Elisabeth D. Welty

80: Job Change and Job Stability Among Less-Skilled Young Workers

Harry Holzer and Robert LaLonde

79: Employee-Based versus Employer-Based Subsidies to Low-Wage Workers: A Public Finance Perspective

Stacy Dickert-Conlin and Douglas Holtz-Eakin

78: What Goes Up Must Come Down? Explaining Recent Changes in Public Assistance Caseloads

Rebecca Blank

77: Welfare Reform, the Business Cycle, and the Decline in AFDC Caseloads

David Figlio and James Ziliak

76: What Will the States Do When Jobs Are Not Plentiful? Policy and Implementation Challenges

LaDonna Pavetti

75: Should Gift Giving Be Subsidized?

Ralph Chami and Connel Fullenkamp

74: Examining the Effect of Industry Trends and Structure on Welfare Caseloads

Timothy Bartik and Randall Eberts

73: Work, Earnings, and Well-Being after Welfare: What Do We Know?

Maria Cancian, Robert Haveman, Thomas Kaplan and Daniel Meyer

72: Wage Progression Among Less Skilled Workers

Tricia Lynn Gladden and Christopher R. Taber

71: Use of Means-Tested Transfer Programs by Immigrants, Their Children, and Their Children's Children

Luojia Hu