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Welfare Reform : Effects of a Decade of Change / Lynn A. Karoly, Jeff Grogger.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: A RAND Corporation StudyPublisher: Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, [2009]Copyright date: ©2005Description: 1 online resource (351 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9780674018914
  • 9780674037960
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 361.6/8
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  • online - DeGruyter
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
  • Issued also in print.
Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Figures -- Tables -- Preface -- Acronyms -- Chapter one. Introduction -- Chapter two. Background -- Chapter three. An Economic Model -- Chapter four. Methodological Issues -- Chapter five. Welfare Use and Welfare Payments -- Chapter six. Employment, Labor Supply, and Earnings -- Chapter seven. Income and Poverty -- Chapter eight. Family Structure -- Chapter nine. Child Outcomes -- Chapter ten. Theory, Evidence, and Policy Trade-offs -- Appendix A. Sources for Experimental Study Results -- Appendix B. Methodology for Summary Figures in Chapter 10 -- Notes -- References -- Index
Summary: In Welfare Reform, Jeffrey Grogger and Lynn Karoly assemble evidence from numerous studies to assess how welfare reform has affected behavior. To broaden our understanding of this wide-ranging policy reform, the authors evaluate the evidence in relation to an economic model of behavior.
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Figures -- Tables -- Preface -- Acronyms -- Chapter one. Introduction -- Chapter two. Background -- Chapter three. An Economic Model -- Chapter four. Methodological Issues -- Chapter five. Welfare Use and Welfare Payments -- Chapter six. Employment, Labor Supply, and Earnings -- Chapter seven. Income and Poverty -- Chapter eight. Family Structure -- Chapter nine. Child Outcomes -- Chapter ten. Theory, Evidence, and Policy Trade-offs -- Appendix A. Sources for Experimental Study Results -- Appendix B. Methodology for Summary Figures in Chapter 10 -- Notes -- References -- Index

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In Welfare Reform, Jeffrey Grogger and Lynn Karoly assemble evidence from numerous studies to assess how welfare reform has affected behavior. To broaden our understanding of this wide-ranging policy reform, the authors evaluate the evidence in relation to an economic model of behavior.

Issued also in print.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 30. Aug 2021)