Does It Pay to Move from Welfare to Work

By Sandra K. Danziger, C. Heflin, M. Corcoran, E. Oltmans, Hui Chen Wang. 2002

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Proximity and opportunity: How residence and race affect the employment of welfare recipients (2002, background): “Danziger et al. (2001) estimate that a single mother with two children and no income other than earnings can earn approximately $800 per month in Michigan”
Inequality among American Families with Children, 1975 to 2005 (2008, background): “Those leaving welfare for employment had higher incomes than those who remained, thereby raising the family incomes of single mothers (Bavier 2002; Danziger et al. 2002; Ellwood 2000).”
Poverty and the American Family: A Decade in Review (2010, background): “states has also revealed the importance of state policies in predicting child poverty rates over time (DeFina, 2008; Morgan & Kickham, 2001). Other studies, however, have focused on the relative importance of changes in family structure as a cause. Sawhill (2006) showed that the 5% increase in child”
Failing the Transition from Welfare to Work: Women Chronically Disconnected from Employment and Cash Welfare† (2006, background): “…since the late 1960s, in part because welfare reform greatly increased jobsearch behavior, and in part because public policy changes within and outside of welfare increased the economic payoff to leaving cash assistance for employment (Ellwood, 2000; Danziger et al., 2002; Danziger and Wang, 2005).”