Welfare Reform and its Long-Term Consequences for America's Poor (eBook, PDF)

Redaktion: Ziliak, James P.

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Produktbeschreibung

Two decades of federal and state-level demonstration projects and experiments concerning cash welfare in the United States culminated with the passage of the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996, better known as welfare reform. Ten years after reform there remain a host of unanswered questions on the well-being of low-income families. In Welfare Reform and its Long Term Consequences for America's Poor, many of the nation's leading poverty experts address these and related outcomes to assess the longer-term effects of welfare reform. A diverse array of survey and administrative data are brought to bear to examine the effects of welfare reform and the concomitant expansions of the Earned Income Tax Credit on the level and distribution of income, the composition of consumption, employment, public versus private health insurance coverage, health and education outcomes of children, marriage, and social service delivery.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. August 2009
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780511601750
• Artikelnr.: 38189659

Inhaltsangabe

1. What we know, what we don't know, and what we need to know about welfare
reform Rebecca Blank; 2. Welfare reform and the level and composition of
income Christopher Bollinger, Luis Gonzalez and James P. Ziliak; 3. How
have expansions in the earned income tax credit affected family
expenditures? Qin Gao, Neeraj Kaushal and Jane Waldfogel; 4. How families
are doing nine years after welfare reform: 2005 evidence from the
three-city study Bianca Frogner, Robert Moffitt and David Ribar; 5. The
impact of welfare reform on leaver characteristics, employment and
recidivism Peter R. Mueser, David W. Stevens and Kenneth R. Troske; 6. A
re-examination of the impact of welfare reform on health insurance among
less-skilled women John C. Ham, Xianghong Li and Lara Shore-Sheppard; 7.
How welfare policies affect child and adolescent school performance:
investigating pathways of influence with experimental data Pamela Morris,
Lisa A. Gennetian, Greg J. Duncan and Aletha C. Huston; 8. The effects of
welfare and child support policies on the incidence of marriage following a
nonmarital birth Jean Knab, Irv Garfinkel, Sara McLanahan, Emily Moiduddin
and Cynthia Osborne; 9. Welfare reform and health among the children of
immigrants Ariel Kalil and Kathleen M. Ziol-Guest; 10. Mismatches and unmet
need: access to social services in urban and rural America Scott W. Allard.