The effects of time limits and other policy changes on welfare use, work, and income among female-headed families

The effects of time limits and other policy c...
Jeff Grogger, Jeff Grogger
The effects of time limits and other policy changes on welfare use, work, and income among female-headed families by Jeff Grogger, Jeff Grogger
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The effects of time limits and other policy changes on welfare use, work, and income among female-headed families

Of all of the welfare reforms that were implemented during the 1990's, time limits may represent the single greatest break from past policy. This paper expands on what is known about this important welfare reform measure by exploiting the predictions from Grogger and Michalopoulos (1999) to estimate the effects of time limits on welfare use, employment, labor supply, earnings, and income among female-headed families. Results based on data from the March Current Population Survey suggest that time limits have had important effects on welfare use and work, accounting for about one-eighth of the decline in welfare use and about 7 percent of the rise in employment since 1993. They have had no significant effect on earnings or income, however. The analysis also shows that the collective effects of other reforms have had important impacts on employment and labor supply. Furthermore, it identifies the Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) as a particularly important contributor to both the recent decrease in welfare use and the recent increase in employment, labor supply, and earnings.

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English
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44

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"March 2001."

JEL no. I3.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [39]-40).

Electronic access limited to Binghamton University faculty, staff and students for instructional and research purposes only.

Electronic version available via the Internet at the NBER World Wide Web site.

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Cambridge, MA
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NBER working paper series -- no. 8153, Working paper series (National Bureau of Economic Research) -- working paper no. 8153.

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44 p. ;
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44

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OL22417170M

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OL2493728W

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