Welfare Reform and At-Risk Mothers' Labour Supply
We analyse the impact of the early 1990s welfare waivers and the 1996 TANF reform in the United States on at-risk mothers' labour supply behaviour using the PSID. We find that whereas the welfare waivers had limited impacts on at-risk mothers, the TANF reform played an important role in encoura...
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sg-smu-ink.soe_research-25282017-08-02T03:03:41Z Welfare Reform and At-Risk Mothers' Labour Supply HO, Christine We analyse the impact of the early 1990s welfare waivers and the 1996 TANF reform in the United States on at-risk mothers' labour supply behaviour using the PSID. We find that whereas the welfare waivers had limited impacts on at-risk mothers, the TANF reform played an important role in encouraging those mothers to increase their labour supply at the intensive margin. 2013-06-01T07:00:00Z text application/pdf https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/soe_research/1529 info:doi/10.1111/1759-3441.12028 https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/soe_research/article/2528/viewcontent/Ho_2013_WelfareReformAtRiskMothers.pdf http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ Research Collection School Of Economics eng Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University at-risk mothers labour supply welfare reform Labor Economics |
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We analyse the impact of the early 1990s welfare waivers and the 1996 TANF reform in the United States on at-risk mothers' labour supply behaviour using the PSID. We find that whereas the welfare waivers had limited impacts on at-risk mothers, the TANF reform played an important role in encouraging those mothers to increase their labour supply at the intensive margin. |
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