Session 117:
Policy and the Family
Chair: Michael Wiseman, George Washington University
Discussant: Sanders Korenman, City University of New York at Baruch
First-Year Maternal Employment, Parenting, and Child Outcomes in Single-Mother Families: Evidence from the Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing Study Lawrence M. Berger, University of Wisconsin at Madison ; Jeanne Brooks-Gunn, Columbia University ; Christina Paxson, Princeton University ; Jane Waldfogel, Columbia University
Were the Assumptions behind Welfare Reform Right?: Comparing Recipients’ Attitudes and Experience Pre- and Post-PRWORA Judith A. Levine, University of Chicago
The Effect of Specific Welfare Policies on Poverty Signe-Mary McKernan, Urban Institute ; Caroline Ratcliffe, Urban Institute
Welfare Reform and Young Child Health and Behavior Cynthia A. Osborne, University of Texas at Austin
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