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70: Male-Female Differences in the Low-Wage Labor Market

Jane Waldfogel and Susan Mayer

69: Financial Incentives for Increasing Work and Income Among Low-Income Families

Rebecca Blank, David Card and Philip Robins

68: Should We Have Faith in the Churches? Ten-Point Coalition's Effect on Boston's Youth Violence

Jenny Berrien and Christopher Winship

67: The States, Welfare Reform, and the Business Cycle

Howard Chernick and Therese J. McGuire

66: Displacement and Wage Effects of Welfare Reform

Timothy Bartik

65: Does the Loss of Welfare Income Increase the Risk of Involvement with the Child Welfare System?

Kristen Shook Slack

64: Child Care and Mothers' Employment Decisions

Patricia Anderson and Phillip Levine

63: Health Insurance and Less Skilled Workers

Janet Currie and Aaron Yelowitz

62: Network Effects and Welfare Cultures

Marianne Bertrand, Erzo Luttmer and Sendhil Mullainathan

61: Group Loyalty and the Taste for Redistribution

Erzo Luttmer

60: Cyclical Welfare Costs In The Post-Reform Era: Will There Be Enough Money?

Phillip Levine

59: Neighborhoods and Adolescent Development: How Can We Determine the Links?

Greg Duncan and Stephen W. Raudenbush

58: Do the Poor Move to Receive Higher Welfare Benefits?

Bruce Meyer

57: Employer Demand for Welfare Recipients and the Business Cycle: Evidence From Recent Employer Surveys

Harry Holzer

56: Wage Erosion, Economic Assessments, and Social Welfare Opinions

Jason Barabas

53: Child Poverty, Program Participation, and Intergenerational Coresidence

Jan E. Mutchler

52: Public Housing and Labor Supply

Janet Currie and Aaron Yelowitz

51: The Effects of After-tax Wages, Transfer Payments, and Child Care Expenses on Labor Market and Transfer Program Participation

Scott Houser and Stacy Dickert-Conlin

50: Child Support and the Post-Divorce Economic Well-Being of Mothers, Fathers, and Children

Judi Bartfeld

49: Dynamic Models of Poverty and Psychosocial Adjustment through Childhood

Michael J. Shanahan, Adam Davey and Jennifer Brooks

48: The Dynamics of AFDC, Medicaid, and Food Stamps: A Preliminary Report

Mairead Reidy, Lucy Mackey-Bilaver, Robert M. Goerge, Yizu Yeh and Bong Joo Lee

47: Aiding Welfare-to-work Transitions: Lessons from JTPA on the Cost-effectiveness of Education and Training Services

Carolyn Heinrich

46: Anti-Poverty Policy and Practice: Ethnographic Case Study of Churches In Appalachia, Kentucky and South-Central, Los Angeles: A Preliminary Report

Katherine Amato- von Hemert

45: Why Work Disappears: Neighborhood Racial Composition and Employers' Relocation Intentions

John Iceland and David R. Harris

44: Informal Family Insurance and the Design of the Welfare State

Rafael Di Tella and Robert MacCulloch

43: Social Security and Institutions for Intergenerational, Intragenerational, and International Risk Sharing

Robert Shiller

42: Public Health Insurance and Private Savings

Jonathan Gruber and Aaron Yelowitz

41: Insuring Consumption Against Illness

Paul Gertler and Jonathan Gruber

40: Experimenting With Welfare Reform: The Political Boundaries Of Policy Analysis

Evelyn Brodkin and Alexander Kaufman

39: Work and Family Circumstances and Child Trajectories: When (and For What) Does AFDC Receipt Matter?

Elizabeth Menaghan, Susan Jekielek, Frank Mott and Elizabeth Cooksey

38: How Different ARE Welfare and Working Families? And Do Those Differences Matter for Children's Achievement?

Greg Duncan, Rachel Dunifon, Morgan Ward Doran and W. Jean Yeung

37: Implementations of Welfare Changes for Parents of Young Children

Jeanne Brooks-Gunn, Judith Smith, Lisa Berlin and Kyunghee Lee

36: Promises to Keep: Assessing Affective and Behavioral Qualities of Mother-Child Relationships in the New Chance Observational Study

Nancy S. Weinfield, Byron Egeland and John R. Ogawa

35: Notes on How Economists Think

Robert Pollak

34: Tyesha's Dilemmas: Anthropological Ruminations on the Consequences of Welfare Reform

Katherine S. Newman

32: Welfare, the Earned Income Tax Credit, and the Labor Supply of Single Mothers

Bruce Meyer and Dan Rosenbaum

31: Concealed-Gun-Carrying Laws and Violent Crime: Evidence from State Panel Data

Jens Otto Ludwig

30: The More Things Change: Immigrants and the Children of Immigrants in the 1940's, the 1970's, and the 1990's

David Card, John DiNardo and Eugena Estes

29: What Do Prosecutors Maximize? An Analysis of Drug Offenders and Concurrent Jurisdiction

Edward Glaeser and Anne Morrison Peihl

28: The Value of Health: 1970-1990

David Cutler and Elizabeth Richardson

27: Health, Health Insurance and the Labor Market

Janet Currie and Brigitte Madrian

26: The Effect of Welfare on Child Outcomes: What We Know and What We Need to Know

Janet Currie

25: The Effects of MTO on Educational Opportunities in Baltimore: Early Evidence

Jens Otto Ludwig and Helen Ladd

24: Short- and Long-Term Effects of AFDC Receipt on Families

Rachel Dunifon

23: Does Age at Enrollment in First Grade Affect Children's Cognitive Test Scores

Susan Mayer and David Knutson

22: Self Sufficiency, Parenting Adequacy, and Child Wellbeing: Lessons from New Chance, the Teenage Parent Demonstration, and LEAP

Nancy Reichman and Sara McLanahan

19: Welfare-to-Work Policy: Employer Hiring and Retention of Former Welfare Recipients

Julia Lane and David Stevens

18: What Causes Public Assistance Caseloads to Grow?

Rebecca Blank

17: Adolescent Pregnancy and Parenthood: Recent Evidence and Future Directions

Rebekah Levine Coley and P. Lindsay Chase-Lansdale

15: Using Performance Indicators With Child Welfare Policy Makers and Managers

Richard P. Barth and Barbara Needell

14: Public Support for Social Welfare Programs, 1984-1996: Description and Explanation

Fay Lomax Cook and Jason Barabas

13: Social Organization and Drug Law Enforcement

Rebecca Blank and Tracey L. Meares

12: An Optimization Model for Location of Subsidized Housing in Metropolitan Areas

Michael P. Johnson and Arthur P. Hurter

11: Measuring Program Impacts On Earnings and Employment

Robert Kornfeld and Howard S. Bloom

10: Using Administrative Data to Evaluate the Ohio JOBS Student Retention Program

Kevin Hollenbeck, Jean Kimmel and Randall Eberts

9: The Effect of Family Planning Programs on the Fertility of Welfare Recipients: Evidence from Medicaid Claims

Jennifer Mellor

8: Earnings Losses of Displaced Workers in the 1990s

Robert Schoeni and Michael Dardia

6: The Effects of Violence on Women's Employment

Susan Lloyd

5: Trouble for Workers and the Poor: Economic Globalization and the Reshaping of American Politics

Benjamin I. Page

4: Regional Labor Fluctuations: Oil Shocks, Military Spending, and Other Driving Forces

Steven Davis, Prakash Lougani and Ramamohan Mahidhara

3: AFDC Benefits and Nonmarital Births to Young Women

Saul Hoffman and E. Michael Foster

2: Economic Impacts of Subsidized Housing Location

Michael P. Johnson and Arthur P. Hurter

1: Time Limits and Welfare Reform: New Estimates of the Number and Characteristics of Affected Families

Greg Duncan, Kathleen Mullan Harris and Johanne Boisjoly