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Welfare Reform and At‐Risk Mothers' Labour Supply
Author(s) -
Ho Christine
Publication year - 2013
Publication title -
economic papers: a journal of applied economics and policy
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.245
H-Index - 19
eISSN - 1759-3441
pISSN - 0812-0439
DOI - 10.1111/1759-3441.12028
Subject(s) - welfare , welfare reform , margin (machine learning) , labour supply , economics , labour economics , single mothers , demographic economics , market economy , psychology , machine learning , computer science , developmental psychology
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.