Welfare-to-Work Reform and Intergenerational Support: Grandmothers' Response to the 1996 PRWORA

• Main Author: HO, Christine
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2015
• Subjects: child care; evaluation; family policies; fragile families; grandparents; welfare; Labor Economics; Public Policy
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/soe_research/1775; https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/soe_research/article/2774/viewcontent/WelfareWorkReformIntergenerationalResourceAllocation_pp.pdf
• Institution: Singapore Management University

The 1996 Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act (PRWORA; Pub. L. 104-193) in the United States aimed at encouraging work among low-income mothers with children below age 18. In this study, the author used a sample of 2,843 intergenerational family observations from the Healt...