The Temporary Assistance for Needy Families Program

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Incentive effects of social assistance: A regression discontinuity approach (2008, background): “For example, the impetus for many of the changes to welfare programmes in the United States since 1967 was a concern about disincentives to work embedded in the programmes ( Moffitt, 2003 ).”
Employment, Hours of Work and the Optimal Taxation of Low Income Families (2008, methodology): “They are also used in the design of work conditioned earnings supplements, for example in the Canadian Self-Sufficiency Project (Card and Robins, 1998) and in the TANF programme of welfare payment in the US (Moffitt, 2003).”
Optimal Welfare-to-Work Programs (2007, methodology): “…literature on the evaluation of active labor market programs (for surveys, see LaLonde, 1995; Meyer, 1995; Heckman, LaLonde and Smith, 1999; Moffitt, 2003) which provides useful guidance on the effectiveness of different types of interventions, but cannot address the complex question of…”
An Assessment of the Effectiveness of Anti-Poverty Programs in the United States. Cambridge, MA: National Bureau of Economic Research (2011, unknown): “However, the early work on the issue showed evidence of a small effect (Moffitt, 1998, 2003b), while extensive studies of the effects of welfare reform (Blank, 2002; Grogger and Karoly, 2005) likewise have shown little effect on such outcomes.”