Sandra K Danziger
Biographic Data
| ID | 97736 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Sandra K Danziger |
| GIVEN NAMES | Sandra K |
| FAMILY NAME | Danziger |
| SIGNATURE | DANZIGER S K |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Michigan |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 27 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 360 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 27 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1979 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 9 |
Three Decades Since Making Ends Meet
In their 1997 book Making Ends Meet , Kathryn Edin and Laura Lein revealed how struggling single mothers strategized to support their families as the deepest welfare reform since the 1930s began. Upending arguments that cash assistance incentivized dependency and single parenthood, their book sparked decades of scholarship on families’ actual living conditions and survival strategies. We introduce this issue by describing how the safety net, and …
Three Decades Since Making Ends Meet
In their 1997 book Making Ends Meet , Kathryn Edin and Laura Lein revealed how struggling single mothers strategized to support their families as the deepest welfare reform since the 1930s began. Upending arguments that cash assistance incentivized dependency and single parenthood, their book sparked decades of scholarship on families’ actual living conditions and survival strategies. We introduce this issue by describing how the safety net, and …
Association of Income and Adversity in Childhood with Adult Health and Well-Being
We analyze data from the Panel Study of Income Dynamics–Childhood Retrospective Circumstances Study to explore the relationship between Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs), childhood household income, and adult health and socioeconomic well-being. Building on the ACEs studies and the social causation of health literature, we test three hypotheses: (1) childhood income is associated with ACEs, (2) both childhood income and ACEs are associated wit…
From Welfare to a Work‐based Safety Net
Increasing Work Opportunities and Reducing Poverty Two Decades After Welfare Reform
Shifting sands that threaten policy advocacy for vulnerable children and youth
Bundling Public and Charitable Supports to Cope with the Effects of the Great Recession
Objective We examine how low‐income households have drawn upon public and charitable nonprofit sources of social assistance during and after the Great Recession. Methods Using panel survey data collected in the Detroit Metropolitan Area in 2008 and 2010, we explore the relationships between household characteristics, program use, and bundling of assistance. Results Roughly two‐thirds of Detroit households within 300 percent of poverty received a …
We're Not All Deadbeat Parents
Studies since the 1996 welfare reform found caseload reductions yet little improvements in well being. This article provides qualitative analysis of program experiences a decade later. From telephone interviews of Michigan recipients, the authors observed that respondents identify one of four combinations of needs for services. They highlighted unmet needs for further education, health-related challenges, interim unemployment-related services, or…
The New Welfare Bureaucrats
The Decline of Cash Welfare and Implications for Social Policy and Poverty
This article highlights the scope of cash welfare as a poverty program and the policy context that led to the legislative distinctions between pre- and post-1996. Trends in welfare, employment, and poverty for single-mother families are presented, as are hypotheses that guide studies of the effects of welfare reform. Social science and policy research on how the reforms have affected economic outcomes, how reform has been implemented, and how it …
Putting Poor People to Work
Journal Article Putting Poor People to Work: How the Work-First Idea Eroded College Access for the Poor by Kathleen M. Shaw, Sara Goldrick-Rab, Christopher Mazzeo, and Jerry A. Jacobs Get access Putting Poor People to Work: How the Work-First Idea Eroded College Access for the Poor by Kathleen M. Shaw, Sara Goldrick-Rab, Christopher Mazzeo, and Jerry A. Jacobs. New York, Russell Sage Foundation, 2007. 199 pp. $32.50. Sandra K. Danziger Sandra K. …
Poverty, Race, and Antipoverty Policy Before and After Hurricane Katrina
Although Hurricane Katrina generated a compassionate public response toward those affected, it did not lead to a serious discourse about the nature of poverty in America, nor did it lead policymakers to re-examine antipoverty policies. In this paper, we present data on long-run trends in the economic status of African Americans and Whites. We demonstrate that even though earnings are lower and poverty rates are higher for African Americans than f…
The Health of Poor Women Under Welfare Reform
Objectives. We compared the health of single mothers affected by welfare reform with the health of a nationally representative sample of women to document the prevalence of poor health as single mothers experience the effects of welfare reform. Methods. We compared risk factors and measures of health among women randomly sampled from the welfare rolls with similar data from a nationally representative sample of women. Results. Women in our welfar…
The contribution of social support to the material well-being of low-income families
We hypothesize that the social support available from low-income networks serves primarily a coping function, rather than a leverage function. Social support and its relationship to material well-being is assessed in a sample of 632 former and current welfare recipients. Respondents report higher levels of perceived emotional, instrumental, and informational support than perceived financial support, and received financial aid is particularly unco…
Barriers to Employment and the ‘Hard to Serve’
Falling welfare rolls in the US has focussed attention on those remaining on the caseload, variously termed the ‘hard to serve’ or ‘difficult to employ’. Using data from the first three years of the Women's Employment Study, a sample of TANF (Temporary Assistance for Needy Families) recipients drawn in an urban county in Michigan, this article examines the barriers that inhibit people moving off welfare. The analysis indicates that the kinds of s…
Maternal Work Behavior under Welfare Reform
How Teen Mothers Are Faring Under Welfare Reform
We examine socioeconomic and psychological well‐being among 88 low‐income minor mothers. Half of the young mothers receive cash welfare assistance and face new policy mandates regarding coresidence status and school attendance. Although most appear to be “complying” with the requirements of the new welfare rules and are satisfied with their current living arrangements, many are faring poorly on dimensions of psychological well‐being and life stre…
Human Capital, Physical Health, and Mental Health of Welfare Recipients
Drawing on a large random sample of welfare recipients in the post–welfare reform era, this article examines the prevalence of mental health disorders, substance dependence, and physical health or disability, their co‐occurrence with human capital problems, and their relation to employment. Half of the participants have none of these potential barriers to employment. Mental health and human capital problems, when present, tend to occur in isolati…
How Welfare Reform is Affecting Women's Work
The new welfare system mandates participation in work activity. We review the evolution of the 1996 legislation and how states implement welfare reform. We examine evidence on recipients' employment, well-being, and future earnings potential to assess the role of welfare in women's work. Policies rewarding work and penalizing nonwork, such as sanctions, time limits, diversion, and earnings 'disregards,' vary across states. While caseloads fell an…
Confronting welfare stereotypes
Journal Article Confronting welfare stereotypes: Characteristics of general assistance recipients and postassistance employment Get access Julia R. Henly, PhD, Julia R. Henly, PhD assistant professor of social welfare School of Public Policy and Social Research, University of California, Los Angeles, 3250 Public Policy Building, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1656; e-mail: [email protected]. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Goo…
Child poverty, public policy and welfare reform
Family life and teenage pregnancy in the inner-city
Child Support in Paternity Cases
This article examines the potential for increasing child support among children born outside of marriage. A description of the process from birth to paternity adjudication to receiving awards and payments is presented, along with data suggesting that only a small portion of women currently establish paternity in the courts. Analyses of determinants of awards and payments among court cases are also reported. The prospects for obtaining limited amo…
Absent Does Not Equal Uninvolved
This study examines the effects of several predictors of father involvement in a large sample of single-parent, teen mother families. Ethological and role theories led to hypotheses of negative effects of the child's age and grandfather's presence and positive effects of the young man 's employment experience on his parenting. The data were from telephone surveys with adolescent female welfare recipients. Among the findings are that the work beha…
Teen Parents and Child Support
Teenaged childbearing is becoming increasingly important in both the growing numbers of female-headed families and the rise in numbers of children eligible for child support. In this paper, we use a new data set from Wisconsin to estimate the participation and experience of teen parents in the child support system. Our analysis mdicates that the current child support system is not very effective in alleviating the severe economic consequences of …
The contribution of social support to the material well-being of low-income families
We hypothesize that the social support available from low-income networks serves primarily a coping function, rather than a leverage function. Social support and its relationship to material well-being is assessed in a sample of 632 former and current welfare recipients. Respondents report higher levels of perceived emotional, instrumental, and informational support than perceived financial support, and received financial aid is particularly unco…
How Welfare Reform is Affecting Women's Work
The new welfare system mandates participation in work activity. We review the evolution of the 1996 legislation and how states implement welfare reform. We examine evidence on recipients' employment, well-being, and future earnings potential to assess the role of welfare in women's work. Policies rewarding work and penalizing nonwork, such as sanctions, time limits, diversion, and earnings 'disregards,' vary across states. While caseloads fell an…
The Decline of Cash Welfare and Implications for Social Policy and Poverty
This article highlights the scope of cash welfare as a poverty program and the policy context that led to the legislative distinctions between pre- and post-1996. Trends in welfare, employment, and poverty for single-mother families are presented, as are hypotheses that guide studies of the effects of welfare reform. Social science and policy research on how the reforms have affected economic outcomes, how reform has been implemented, and how it …
Absent Does Not Equal Uninvolved
This study examines the effects of several predictors of father involvement in a large sample of single-parent, teen mother families. Ethological and role theories led to hypotheses of negative effects of the child's age and grandfather's presence and positive effects of the young man 's employment experience on his parenting. The data were from telephone surveys with adolescent female welfare recipients. Among the findings are that the work beha…
Human Capital, Physical Health, and Mental Health of Welfare Recipients
Drawing on a large random sample of welfare recipients in the post–welfare reform era, this article examines the prevalence of mental health disorders, substance dependence, and physical health or disability, their co‐occurrence with human capital problems, and their relation to employment. Half of the participants have none of these potential barriers to employment. Mental health and human capital problems, when present, tend to occur in isolati…
Barriers to Employment and the ‘Hard to Serve’
Falling welfare rolls in the US has focussed attention on those remaining on the caseload, variously termed the ‘hard to serve’ or ‘difficult to employ’. Using data from the first three years of the Women's Employment Study, a sample of TANF (Temporary Assistance for Needy Families) recipients drawn in an urban county in Michigan, this article examines the barriers that inhibit people moving off welfare. The analysis indicates that the kinds of s…
Maternal Work Behavior under Welfare Reform
How Teen Mothers Are Faring Under Welfare Reform
We examine socioeconomic and psychological well‐being among 88 low‐income minor mothers. Half of the young mothers receive cash welfare assistance and face new policy mandates regarding coresidence status and school attendance. Although most appear to be “complying” with the requirements of the new welfare rules and are satisfied with their current living arrangements, many are faring poorly on dimensions of psychological well‐being and life stre…
From Welfare to a Work‐based Safety Net
The Health of Poor Women Under Welfare Reform
Objectives. We compared the health of single mothers affected by welfare reform with the health of a nationally representative sample of women to document the prevalence of poor health as single mothers experience the effects of welfare reform. Methods. We compared risk factors and measures of health among women randomly sampled from the welfare rolls with similar data from a nationally representative sample of women. Results. Women in our welfar…
Family life and teenage pregnancy in the inner-city
On Doctor Watching
Confronting welfare stereotypes
Journal Article Confronting welfare stereotypes: Characteristics of general assistance recipients and postassistance employment Get access Julia R. Henly, PhD, Julia R. Henly, PhD assistant professor of social welfare School of Public Policy and Social Research, University of California, Los Angeles, 3250 Public Policy Building, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1656; e-mail: [email protected]. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Goo…
Child Support in Paternity Cases
This article examines the potential for increasing child support among children born outside of marriage. A description of the process from birth to paternity adjudication to receiving awards and payments is presented, along with data suggesting that only a small portion of women currently establish paternity in the courts. Analyses of determinants of awards and payments among court cases are also reported. The prospects for obtaining limited amo…
We're Not All Deadbeat Parents
Studies since the 1996 welfare reform found caseload reductions yet little improvements in well being. This article provides qualitative analysis of program experiences a decade later. From telephone interviews of Michigan recipients, the authors observed that respondents identify one of four combinations of needs for services. They highlighted unmet needs for further education, health-related challenges, interim unemployment-related services, or…
Poverty, Race, and Antipoverty Policy Before and After Hurricane Katrina
Although Hurricane Katrina generated a compassionate public response toward those affected, it did not lead to a serious discourse about the nature of poverty in America, nor did it lead policymakers to re-examine antipoverty policies. In this paper, we present data on long-run trends in the economic status of African Americans and Whites. We demonstrate that even though earnings are lower and poverty rates are higher for African Americans than f…
Association of Income and Adversity in Childhood with Adult Health and Well-Being
We analyze data from the Panel Study of Income Dynamics–Childhood Retrospective Circumstances Study to explore the relationship between Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs), childhood household income, and adult health and socioeconomic well-being. Building on the ACEs studies and the social causation of health literature, we test three hypotheses: (1) childhood income is associated with ACEs, (2) both childhood income and ACEs are associated wit…
Increasing Work Opportunities and Reducing Poverty Two Decades After Welfare Reform
Bundling Public and Charitable Supports to Cope with the Effects of the Great Recession
Objective We examine how low‐income households have drawn upon public and charitable nonprofit sources of social assistance during and after the Great Recession. Methods Using panel survey data collected in the Detroit Metropolitan Area in 2008 and 2010, we explore the relationships between household characteristics, program use, and bundling of assistance. Results Roughly two‐thirds of Detroit households within 300 percent of poverty received a …
Treatment of women in childbirth
This paper presents an ethnographic analysis of a woman's interaction with staff members during the early stage of labor, focusing on the factors that shape the childbirth experience. The observational data were gathered in several hospitals as part of a study of the medical context of childbearing. The paper presents a model of naturalistic inquiry into the transition to parenthood. Nurses and physicians are found to offer arbitrary, uniform, an…
The New Welfare Bureaucrats
Treatment of women in childbirth
This paper presents an ethnographic analysis of a woman's interaction with staff members during the early stage of labor, focusing on the factors that shape the childbirth experience. The observational data were gathered in several hospitals as part of a study of the medical context of childbearing. The paper presents a model of naturalistic inquiry into the transition to parenthood. Nurses and physicians are found to offer arbitrary, uniform, an…
On Doctor Watching
Teen Parents and Child Support
Teenaged childbearing is becoming increasingly important in both the growing numbers of female-headed families and the rise in numbers of children eligible for child support. In this paper, we use a new data set from Wisconsin to estimate the participation and experience of teen parents in the child support system. Our analysis mdicates that the current child support system is not very effective in alleviating the severe economic consequences of …
Child Support in Paternity Cases
This article examines the potential for increasing child support among children born outside of marriage. A description of the process from birth to paternity adjudication to receiving awards and payments is presented, along with data suggesting that only a small portion of women currently establish paternity in the courts. Analyses of determinants of awards and payments among court cases are also reported. The prospects for obtaining limited amo…
Absent Does Not Equal Uninvolved
This study examines the effects of several predictors of father involvement in a large sample of single-parent, teen mother families. Ethological and role theories led to hypotheses of negative effects of the child's age and grandfather's presence and positive effects of the young man 's employment experience on his parenting. The data were from telephone surveys with adolescent female welfare recipients. Among the findings are that the work beha…
Child poverty, public policy and welfare reform
Family life and teenage pregnancy in the inner-city
Confronting welfare stereotypes
Journal Article Confronting welfare stereotypes: Characteristics of general assistance recipients and postassistance employment Get access Julia R. Henly, PhD, Julia R. Henly, PhD assistant professor of social welfare School of Public Policy and Social Research, University of California, Los Angeles, 3250 Public Policy Building, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1656; e-mail: [email protected]. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Goo…
How Teen Mothers Are Faring Under Welfare Reform
We examine socioeconomic and psychological well‐being among 88 low‐income minor mothers. Half of the young mothers receive cash welfare assistance and face new policy mandates regarding coresidence status and school attendance. Although most appear to be “complying” with the requirements of the new welfare rules and are satisfied with their current living arrangements, many are faring poorly on dimensions of psychological well‐being and life stre…
Human Capital, Physical Health, and Mental Health of Welfare Recipients
Drawing on a large random sample of welfare recipients in the post–welfare reform era, this article examines the prevalence of mental health disorders, substance dependence, and physical health or disability, their co‐occurrence with human capital problems, and their relation to employment. Half of the participants have none of these potential barriers to employment. Mental health and human capital problems, when present, tend to occur in isolati…
How Welfare Reform is Affecting Women's Work
The new welfare system mandates participation in work activity. We review the evolution of the 1996 legislation and how states implement welfare reform. We examine evidence on recipients' employment, well-being, and future earnings potential to assess the role of welfare in women's work. Policies rewarding work and penalizing nonwork, such as sanctions, time limits, diversion, and earnings 'disregards,' vary across states. While caseloads fell an…
Barriers to Employment and the ‘Hard to Serve’
Falling welfare rolls in the US has focussed attention on those remaining on the caseload, variously termed the ‘hard to serve’ or ‘difficult to employ’. Using data from the first three years of the Women's Employment Study, a sample of TANF (Temporary Assistance for Needy Families) recipients drawn in an urban county in Michigan, this article examines the barriers that inhibit people moving off welfare. The analysis indicates that the kinds of s…
Maternal Work Behavior under Welfare Reform
The Health of Poor Women Under Welfare Reform
Objectives. We compared the health of single mothers affected by welfare reform with the health of a nationally representative sample of women to document the prevalence of poor health as single mothers experience the effects of welfare reform. Methods. We compared risk factors and measures of health among women randomly sampled from the welfare rolls with similar data from a nationally representative sample of women. Results. Women in our welfar…
The contribution of social support to the material well-being of low-income families
We hypothesize that the social support available from low-income networks serves primarily a coping function, rather than a leverage function. Social support and its relationship to material well-being is assessed in a sample of 632 former and current welfare recipients. Respondents report higher levels of perceived emotional, instrumental, and informational support than perceived financial support, and received financial aid is particularly unco…
Poverty, Race, and Antipoverty Policy Before and After Hurricane Katrina
Although Hurricane Katrina generated a compassionate public response toward those affected, it did not lead to a serious discourse about the nature of poverty in America, nor did it lead policymakers to re-examine antipoverty policies. In this paper, we present data on long-run trends in the economic status of African Americans and Whites. We demonstrate that even though earnings are lower and poverty rates are higher for African Americans than f…
Putting Poor People to Work
Journal Article Putting Poor People to Work: How the Work-First Idea Eroded College Access for the Poor by Kathleen M. Shaw, Sara Goldrick-Rab, Christopher Mazzeo, and Jerry A. Jacobs Get access Putting Poor People to Work: How the Work-First Idea Eroded College Access for the Poor by Kathleen M. Shaw, Sara Goldrick-Rab, Christopher Mazzeo, and Jerry A. Jacobs. New York, Russell Sage Foundation, 2007. 199 pp. $32.50. Sandra K. Danziger Sandra K. …
The New Welfare Bureaucrats
The Decline of Cash Welfare and Implications for Social Policy and Poverty
This article highlights the scope of cash welfare as a poverty program and the policy context that led to the legislative distinctions between pre- and post-1996. Trends in welfare, employment, and poverty for single-mother families are presented, as are hypotheses that guide studies of the effects of welfare reform. Social science and policy research on how the reforms have affected economic outcomes, how reform has been implemented, and how it …
We're Not All Deadbeat Parents
Studies since the 1996 welfare reform found caseload reductions yet little improvements in well being. This article provides qualitative analysis of program experiences a decade later. From telephone interviews of Michigan recipients, the authors observed that respondents identify one of four combinations of needs for services. They highlighted unmet needs for further education, health-related challenges, interim unemployment-related services, or…
From Welfare to a Work‐based Safety Net
Increasing Work Opportunities and Reducing Poverty Two Decades After Welfare Reform
Shifting sands that threaten policy advocacy for vulnerable children and youth
Bundling Public and Charitable Supports to Cope with the Effects of the Great Recession
Objective We examine how low‐income households have drawn upon public and charitable nonprofit sources of social assistance during and after the Great Recession. Methods Using panel survey data collected in the Detroit Metropolitan Area in 2008 and 2010, we explore the relationships between household characteristics, program use, and bundling of assistance. Results Roughly two‐thirds of Detroit households within 300 percent of poverty received a …
Association of Income and Adversity in Childhood with Adult Health and Well-Being
We analyze data from the Panel Study of Income Dynamics–Childhood Retrospective Circumstances Study to explore the relationship between Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs), childhood household income, and adult health and socioeconomic well-being. Building on the ACEs studies and the social causation of health literature, we test three hypotheses: (1) childhood income is associated with ACEs, (2) both childhood income and ACEs are associated wit…
Welfare (18 works) · Political science (16 works) · Gender, Labor, and Family Dynamics (15 works) · Welfare reform (14 works) · Economics (13 works) · Psychology (13 works) · Demographic economics (11 works) · Economic growth (9 works) · Sociology (9 works) · Poverty (8 works)