Did Welfare Reform Cause the Caseload Decline
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 10539704 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Caroline Danielson (Public Policy Institute of California, corresponding author), Jacob Alex Klerman (Schulman, Ronca & Bucuvalas) |
| Year | 2008 |
| Volume | 82 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 703-730 |
| Publication date | 2008-12-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Social Service Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0037-7961 • E-ISSN: 1537-5404 |
| Publisher | University of Chicago Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1086/597347 |
| OpenAlex | W1980037235 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 23 |
| References cited | 24 |
The federal Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) program, created in 1996 to replace Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC), devolved considerable policy‐making responsibility to states. In the 2006 reauthorization of TANF, Bush administration officials and others proclaimed welfare reform a dramatic success, yet research has not comprehensively assessed the extent to which specific welfare policies caused the caseload to decline. Employing 7 years of AFDC data and 9 years of TANF data, in combination with methods sensitive to the effect of gradually implemented policies on caseload stocks, this work obtains plausible estimates of the effects of the economy and of four policies (financial incentives, sanctions, time limits, and diversion) that characterize the shift from AFDC to TANF. Simulations imply that the examined policies pushed the caseload down in the 1990s but that neither they nor the economy can explain the majority of the decline
Administration (probate law · Aid to Families with Dependent Children · Demographic economics · Economics · Incentive · Labour economics · Market economy · Political science · Sanctions · Welfare · Welfare reform · Work (physics · Financial Literacy, Pension, Retirement Analysis · Gender, Labor, and Family Dynamics · Poverty, Education, and Child Welfare
Do Central-Government Grants Affect Welfare Caseloads? Evidence from Public Assistance in Japan
State Tanf Time Limit and Work Sanction Stringencies and Long-Term Trajectories of Welfare Use, Labor Supply, and Income
Serving No One Well
Ending Access as We Know It
State Tanf Policies and Employment Outcomes among Welfare Leavers
Do Welfare Sanctions Help or Hurt the Poor? Estimating the Causal Effect of Sanctioning on Client Earnings
Journal of Sociology and Social Welfare Vol. 44 No. 2
Program and Economic Outcomes by Tanf Work Exemption Status
Implications of Paid Family Leave for Welfare Participants
The Extended Tanf Application Period and Applicant Outcomes
First Birth before First Stable Employment and Subsequent Single-Mother “Disconnection” before and after the Welfare Reform and Great Recession
Welfare reform's impact on caseload decline in the United States
Has the fiscal decentralization of social welfare programs helped effectively reduce poverty across U.S. states
The transformation of the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program
AFDC/Tanf exits and re-entries for families raising children with educational disabilities
The welfare reforms of the 1990s and the stratification of material well-being among low-income households with children
Below the Tip of the Iceberg
Decomposing the Decline of Cash Assistance in the United States, 1993 to 2016
The Relationship between State Welfare Rules and Economic Disconnection among Low-Income Single Mothers
The Future of the Family Cap
What Explains Short Spells on Child-Care Subsidies
Second‐Order Devolution and Administrative Exclusion in the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families Program
The Decline of Cash Welfare and Implications for Social Policy and Poverty
Biases in Dynamic Models with Fixed Effects
How Much Should We Trust Differences-In-Differences Estimates?
Evaluating Welfare Reform in the United States
Welfare, the Earned Income Tax Credit, and the Labor Supply of Single Mothers
The Effects of Time Limits, the Eitc, and Other Policy Changes on Welfare Use, Work, and Income among Female-Headed Families
Error Components in Grouped Data
Local Labor Markets and Welfare Spells
Caseload change
Does the minimum wage affect welfare caseloads
Exiting welfare in the 1990s
Time Limits and Welfare Reform
Welfare Dynamics under Time Limits
| Unique citing works | 23 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1,35 |
| Citation span | 2009 - 2022 (14) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 22 |