Because of dramatic levels of economic volatility and massive changes in welfare policies,
scholars in this decade worried anew about whether our official poverty measure, adopted in …

Existing research on compliance failures by individuals and businesses focuses primarily on
information and incentive problems. This article develops a comprehensive framework for …

After welfare reform was passed in 1996, there was every reason to hope that the welfare
queen was dead. The" welfare queen" was shorthand for a lazy woman of color, with …

I argue that worker-client relations and their consequences are the actual manifestation of
people changing policies. A theoretical framework is presented to explain the path from the …

This study examines whether maternal employment affects the health status of low-income,
elementary-school-aged children using instrumental variables estimation and experimental …

Low-income women's rates of employment have grown dramatically in recent years, yet the
stability and quality of their employment remain low. Using panel data from the Three-City …

In the United States, the numbers of impoverished women with children and no cash safety
net are increasing and constitute an emerging population. Many have exhausted cash …

This study uses data from an experimental employment program and instrumental variables
(IV) estimation to examine the effects of maternal job loss on child classroom behavior …

Economic downturns, trends in the increased number of single-mother families and women
entering the workforce, recent welfare reforms that make receipt of cash benefits contingent …

Research suggests that low‐income adults accessing employment services have
experienced high levels of trauma exposure and associated consequences. Moreover, the …