Accounting for the decline in AFDC caseloads: Welfare reform or the economy?

By James P. Ziliak, David N. Figlio, Elizabeth E. Davis, Laura Connolly. 2000

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Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Gender Studies, Political Science and International Relations

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Food Stamp Caseloads over the Business Cycle (2003, background): “As noted in Ziliak et al. (2000), many pre-Welfare Reform Act waivers are associated with declines in AFDC caseloads.”
The road to economic self-sufficiency: Job quality and job transition patterns after welfare reform (2003, background): “…effect of the business cycle or local labor market conditions on welfare caseloads over the 1980s and 1990s (e.g., Hoynes, 2000; Wallace and Blank, 1999; Ziliak et al., 2000); but less evidence has been brought to bear on how welfare recipients’ labor market outcomes are affected (Holzer, 1999a).”
The Effects of Time Limits, the EITC, and Other Policy Changes on Welfare Use, Work, and Income among Female-Headed Families (2003, methodology): “7 See CEA (1997, 1999), Wallace and Blank (1999), Ziliak et al. (2000), Mof tt (1999), Schoeni and Blank (2000).”
The Effects of Welfare and Tax Reform: The Material Well-Being of Single Mothers in the 1980s and 1990s (2004, unknown): “The welfare caseload literature (Levine and Whitmore, 1998; Blank, 2001; Ziliak et al., 2000) has reached conflicting results about the relative importance of waivers and macroeconomic conditions.”
Welfare Reform: How Do We Measure Success? (2002, background): “A recent study of welfare waivers prior to PRWORA found that the 1993- 96 declines in AFDC caseloads were largely attributable to changing economic conditions (Ziliak et al 2000).”
The More Things Change, the More They Stay the Same? The Safety Net and Poverty in the Great Recession (2016, background): “This analysis extends existing estimates on the cyclicality of safety-net programs (e.g., Bitler and Hoynes 2010; Blank 2001; Corsetto 2012; Hardy et al., 2014; Ziliak et al., 2000; Ziliak et al., 2003).”
Another Look at Whether a Rising Tide Lifts All Boats (2001, background): “The estimates in these studies vary somewhat, but overall they find that labor market conditions are important determinants of the welfare caseload (Blank 2000a, Council of Economic Advisors [CEA] 1997, Ziliak et al 2000).”
Welfare Dynamics under Time Limits (2003, background): “Other researchers who have considered the effects of time limits include Council of Economic Advisers (1997, 1999), Swann (1998), Moffitt (1999), and Ziliak et al. (2000).4 Swann formulates a stochastic dynamic programming model and estimates its parameters with data on AFDC use from the Panel…”