References

 

Journal Articles

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General Impacts of Welfare Reform

Determinants of Initial Entry onto Welfare by Young Women - This is a longitudinal study using data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth...

Employer Demand for Welfare Recipients by Race - This article addresses unanswered questions in welfare research regarding the ability of recipients to be hired, where they are hired, at what wages specifically in regards to race by looking at the demand side of this labor...

The Impact of Welfare Reform on Living Arrangements - This unpublished study at the National Bureau of Economic Research used the Current Population Survey to study the 1996 welfare reform’s impacts on children, and on family structures...

Proximity and Opportunity: How Residence and Race affect the Employment of Welfare Recipients - Danziger and Allard compare the availability of jobs in the Detroit Metropolitan Area with the location of groups of welfare recipients... 

Proximity to Service Providers and Service Utilization among Welfare Recipients: The Interaction of Place and Race -Allard et. al. researched the impact of the proximity of welfare services to recipients on the utilization of those services...

Welfare Reform and Neighborhoods: Race and Civic Participation -Jennings argues that TANF has had a negative impact on Blacks and Latinos through its affects on inner city communities. ...

 

Assessing Different Programs Implemented under PRWORA

Welfare reform: Success with trouble spots. - This article comments on two studies done by Michalopoulos and Chernick and Reimers...

What works best for whom? The effects of welfare and work policies by race and ethnicity. - This study took 26 randomly assigned welfare-to-work programs (attempted to represent those post-1996 reform) and examined how white, African-American, and Hispanic welfare recipients differed ...

 

Local Impacts of Welfare Reform

Race, Bureaucratic Discretion, and the Implementation of Welfare Reform. - ...This study looks at the implementation of welfare reform in Missouri in 1998, when case managers began to impose sanctions on a wide scale...

Working and Leaving Welfare: Does Race or Ethnicity Matter? - Harknett studied the Labor Force Attachment program, a welfare-to-work program similar to TANF in Riverside County...

 

 

Books

 

Brush, Lisa D.  “Impacts of Welfare Reform.” Race, Gender and Class. New Orleans: Jul 31, 2003. Vol. 10, Iss. 3; pg 173.

Moffitt, R.A. (2002) From Welfare to Work: What the evidence shows.  Welfare reform and beyond Policy Brief No. 13. Washington, D.C.: The Brookings Institution.

Noble, C. (1997). Welfare as we knew it: A political history of the American welfare state.  New York: Oxford University Press.

 

 

 

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