Welfare Dynamics under Time Limits

By Jeffrey T. Grogger, C. Michalopoulos. Journal of Political Economy, 2003

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Are Lone Mothers Responsive to Policy Changes? Evidence from a Workfare Reform in a Generous Welfare State (2012, unknown): “…benefit amount for lone mothers with older children declined in 2001; this conforms to intuition, as they were faced with work 10 Grogger (2002), Grogger and Michalopoulos (2003) and Swann (2005) find that the introduction of time limits reduces welfare receipt substantially and that a…”
Assessing the Impact of Welfare Reform on Single Mothers (2004, methodology): “However, there is evidence that time limits are more important for single mothers with younger children, consistent with results in Grogger (2000) and Grogger and Michalopoulos (2003).”
National Poverty Center Working Paper Series What Mean Impacts Miss: Distributional Effects of Welfare Reform Experiments What Mean Impacts Miss: Distributional Effects of Welfare Reform Experiments (unknown): “Participants may also " bank " their eligibility by reducing welfare and increasing labor supply even before the time limit binds, as discussed in Grogger & Michalopoulos (2003).”
Migration, the Life Cycle, and State Benefits: How Low Is the Bottom? (2004, background): “The end result is a rough estimate of the ratio of optimal state-level welfare benefit levels in a 7 To be sure, recent work on time limits by Grogger (2000) and Grogger and Michalopoulos (2003) suggests that welfare participants are at least partly forward looking.”