Time Limits and Welfare Use.
Time limits represent a substantial departure from previous welfare policy. Theory suggests that their effects should vary according to the age of the youngest child of the family. I test this prediction using data from the Current Population Survey and find that time limits indeed have larger effec...
| Publicado en: | Journal of Human Resources Vol. 39; no. 2; pp. 405 - 425 |
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University of Wisconsin Press
Spring2004
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| Sumario: | Time limits represent a substantial departure from previous welfare policy. Theory suggests that their effects should vary according to the age of the youngest child of the family. I test this prediction using data from the Current Population Survey and find that time limits indeed have larger effects on families with younger children. I further estimate that anticipatory responses to time limits have decreased welfare use by 6 to 7 percent, accounting for 12 to 13 percent of the decline in welfare use during the late 1990s. Reprinted by permission of the publisher. |
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