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October 10, 2023
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May 27, 2021
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January 1, 2018
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January 1, 2017
Little is known about the effects of the most recent welfare reform initiatives-which include work mandates, time lilnits, and enhanced earnings disregards-on children’s outcmnes. This is partly because the ways in which maternal employment and income affe ...
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January 1, 2017
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January 1, 2014
This paper uses retrospective child care data from the NLSY79 to examine the patterns and determinants of paternal child care during a child’s first three years of life. We focus on two-parent families with children whose mothers worked sometime between th ...
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January 1, 2011
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December 1, 2010
The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development's (HUD) Moving to Opportunity (MTO) experiment provides a unique opportunity to answer the question of whether moving from a high-poverty neighborhood to a lower-poverty community improves the social and ...
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December 1, 2009
The push for antipoverty programs that promote parents' self-sufficiency by requiring or supporting employment has been building for over thirty years, since the early 1980s. Yet increasing the self-sufficiency of single parents raises some important quest ...
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January 1, 2009
Introduction. Over the past 30 years, public programs for poor families have moved away from cash assistance to a focus on promoting parents' self-sufficiency through employment. Improving the well-being of children is an often expressed policy goal, but t ...
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December 1, 2006
ARANDOM-ASSIGNMENT study can provide the most compelling evidence possible about how an intervention - be it social, economic, legal, or medical - affects the people to whom it is targeted. Randomization entails using a lotterylike process to assign each e ...
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January 1, 2006
In recent years, research examining the effects of welfare and antipoverty policies on children and adolescents has surged (Chase-Lansdale et al., 2003; Gennetian et al., 2002; Morris, Huston, Duncan, Crosby, & Bos, 2001; Huston et al., 2001; Yoshikawa, Ro ...
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January 1, 2006
Many strong arguments can be made to support the collection of good indicators of children’s well-being and for using such indicators to informpolicy and practice. Indeed, indicators such as rates of teen pregnancy, high school graduation, or dropping out ...
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