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1173-98: Wisconsin’s W-2 Program: Welfare as We Might Come to Know It

T. Kaplan

1172-98: Migration Patterns and the Growth of High-Poverty Neighborhoods, 1970–1990

L. Quillian

1171-98: The “Inability to Be Self-Reliant” as an Indicator of Poverty: Trends in the United States, 1975–1995

Robert Haveman and A. Bershadker

1170-98: Getting Jobs, Keeping Jobs, and Earning a Living Wage: Can Welfare Reform Work?

A. Kalil, M. E. Corcoran, S. K. Danziger, R. Tolman, K. S. Seefeldt, D. Rosen and Y. Nam

1169-98: What Does Affirmative Action Do?

Harry Holzer and David Neumark

1168-98: Disruptive Events during the High School Years and Educational Attainment

L. Bethke and G. Sandefur

1167-98: Grade Retention and School Performance: An Extended Investigation

A. R. McCoy and A. J. Reynolds

1166-98: The Twentieth Century Record of Inequality and Poverty in the United States

R. D. Plotnick, E. Smolensky, Eirik Evenhouse and Siobhan Reilly

1165-98: Family Change and Early Sexual Initiation

L. L. Wu and E. Thomson

1164-98: The Decline of Welfare in Wisconsin

L. M. Mead

1163-98: A Monthly Cycle in Food Expenditure and Intake by Participants in the U.S. Food Stamp Program

Parke Wilde and C. Ranney

1162-98: Black Applicants, Black Employees, and Urban Labor Market Policy

Harry Holzer

1161-98: Do Attitudes and Personality Characteristics Affect Socioeconomic Outcomes? The Case of Welfare Use by Young Women

R. Plotnick, M. Klawitter and M. Edwards

1160-98: Are Suburban Firms More Likely to Discriminate Against African Americans?

S. Raphael, Michael Stoll and Harry Holzer

1159-98: Welfare to Work in the U.S.: A Model for Other Nations?

Robert Haveman and Barbara Wolfe

1158-98: Poverty as a Public Health Issue: Poverty since the Kerner Commission Report of 1968

G. Sandefur, M. Martin and T. Wells

1157-98: Are Jobs Available for Disadvantaged Workers in Urban Areas?

Harry Holzer and S. Danziger

1156-98: An Analysis of Sample Attrition in Panel Data: The Michigan Panel Study of Income Dynamics

John Fitzgerald, Peter Gottschalk and Robert Moffitt

1155-98: Using a Model to Evaluate the Impact of Managed Care on Medicaid-Eligible Moms and Their Children in a Rural Population

R. Riportella-Muller

1154-98: Asymmetric Policy Interaction among Subnational Governments: Do States Play Welfare Games?

David Figlio, V. W. Kolpin and W. E. Reid

1153-97: The Effect of Welfare on Marriage and Fertility: What Do We Know and What Do We Need to Know?

Robert Moffitt

1152-97: Are Public Housing Projects Good For Kids?

Janet Currie and Aaron Yelowitz

1151-97: Accounting for the Decline in AFDC Caseloads: Welfare Reform or Economic Growth?

James Ziliak, David Figlio, Elizabeth Davis and L. S. Connolly

1150-97: Perceived Fairness and Compliance with Child Support Obligations

I. Lin

1149-97: The Impact of Recent Welfare Reforms on Labor Supply Behavior in New Zealand

T. Maloney

1148-97: Credit Cards and the Poor

E. J. Bird, Paul Hagstrom and R. Wild

1147-97: Has ‘Welfare Dependency’ Increased?

Peter Gottschalk

1145-97: How Does Adolescent Fertility Affect the Human Capital and Wages of Young Women?

D. Klepinger, Shelly Lundberg and R. Plotnick

1144-97: Using Siblings to Investigate the Effects of Family Structure on Educational Attainment

G. D. Sandefur and T. Wells

1143-97: The Changing Economic Status of Disabled Women, 1982–1991: Trends and Their Determinants

Robert Haveman, K. Holden, Barbara Wolfe, P. Smith and Kathryn Wilson

1142-97: School Finance Reforms, Tax Limits, and Student Performance: Do Reforms Level Up or Dumb Down?

Thomas Downes and David Figlio

1141-97: School Choice and Student Performance: Are Private Schools Really Better?

David Figlio and Joe Stone

1140-97: Family Structure, Substitute Care, and Educational Achievement

W. R. Prosser

1139-97: Tax Rates and Work Incentives in the Social Security Disability Insurance Program: Current Law and Alternative Reforms

Hilary Hoynes and Robert Moffitt

1138-97: Earnings of Black and White Youth and Their Relation to Poverty

P. M. Gleason and Glen Cain

1137-97: Do Teens Make Rational Choices? The Case of Teen Nonmarital Childbearing

Robert Haveman, Barbara Wolfe, Kathryn Wilson and E. Peterson

1136-97: Public Policy and Health Care Choices of the Elderly: Evidence from the Medicare Buy-In Program

Aaron Yelowitz

1135-97: Public Health Insurance and Private Savings

Jonathan Gruber and Aaron Yelowitz

1134-97: Special Education and School Achievement: An Explanatory Analysis

A. Reynolds and Barbara Wolfe

1133-97: Physical Custody in Wisconsin Divorce Cases, 1980–1992

P. Brown, M. Melli and Maria Cancian

1132-97: Shifts in U.S. Relative Wages: The Role of Trade, Technology, and Factor Endowments

Robert Baldwin and Glen Cain

1131-97: Uninsured Spells of the Poor: Prevalence and Duration

T. D. McBride

1130-97: Patterns of Child Support Compliance in Wisconsin

D. R. Meyer and J. Bartfeld

1129-97: Duration of Public Assistance Receipt: Is Welfare a Trap?

G. Sandefur and S. Cook

1128-97: Welfare Reform and the Labor Market: Earnings Potential and Welfare Benefits in California, 1972–1994

P. Brady and M. Wiseman

1127-97: An Empirical Analysis of Income Dynamics among Men in the PSID: 1968–1989

John Geweke and Michael Keane

1126-97: The Chicago Child-Parent Centers: A Longitudinal Study of Extended Early Childhood Intervention

A. J. Reynolds

1125-97: Family Structure, Early Sexual Behavior, and Premarital Births

L. L. Wu, A. J. Cherlin and L. L. Bumpass

1124-97: Decreasing Opportunities for Low-Wage Workers: The Role of the Nondiscrimination Law for Employer-Provided Health Insurance

A. M. Wolaver, T. D. McBride and Barbara Wolfe

1123-97: Shifting Family Definitions: The Effect of Cohabitation and Other Nonfamily Household Relationships on Measures of Poverty

K. Bauman