Welfare Reform: Effects of a Decade of Change
- ISBN-10
- 0674037960
- ISBN-13
- 9780674037960
- Series
- Welfare Reform
- Category
- Political Science
- Pages
- 352
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2009-06-30
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press
- Authors
- Lynn A. Karoly, Jeff GROGGER
Description
In Welfare Reform, Jeffrey Grogger and Lynn Karoly assemble evidence from numerous studies to assess how welfare reform has affected behavior. To broaden our understanding of this wide-ranging policy reform, the authors evaluate the evidence in relation to an economic model of behavior.
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