Welfare reform and its long-term consequences for America`s poor

Includes bibliographical references and index.

What we know, what we don't know, and what we need to know about welfare reform / Rebecca Blank -- Welfare reform and the level and composition of income / Christopher Bollinger, Luis Gonzalez, and James P. Ziliak -- How have expansions in the earned income tax credit affected family expenditures? / Qin Gao, Neeraj Kaushal, and Jane Waldfogel -- How families are doing nine years after welfare reform : 2005 evidence from the three-city study / Bianca Frogner, Robert Moffitt, and David Ribar -- The impact of welfare reform on leaver characteristics, employment, and recidivism / Peter R. Mueser, David W. Stevens, and Kenneth R. Troske -- A reexamination of the impact of welfare reform on health insurance among less-skilled women / John C. Ham, Xianghong Li, and Lara Shore-Sheppard -- How welfare policies affect child and adolescent school performance : investigating pathways of influence with experimental data / Pamela Morris, Lisa A. Gennetian, Greg J. Duncan, and Aletha C. Huston -- The effects of welfare and child support policies on the incidence of marriage following a nonmarital birth / Jean Knab ... [et al.] -- Welfare reform and health among the children of immigrants / Ariel Kalil and Kathleen M. Ziol-Guest -- Mismatches and unmet need : access to social services in urban and rural America / Scott W. Allard.