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Welfare Reform and Child Care

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  • Philip K. Robins

    (University of Miami, probins@miami.edu)

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This article examines the employment and child care responses of families participating in 10 experimental welfare reform programs conducted in the United States between 1989 and 2002. For the programs analyzed, child care use increases by about the same amount as the increase in employment. Most of the increased child care comprises informal care by a relative, particularly care by a sibling or a grandparent. Although there are significant differences in the child care responses across the various programs tested, there are no significant differences in the impacts for persons leaving welfare versus persons staying on welfare.

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  • Philip K. Robins, 2007. "Welfare Reform and Child Care," Evaluation Review, , vol. 31(5), pages 440-468, October.
    • Handle: RePEc:sae:evarev:v:31:y:2007:i:5:p:440-468
    DOI: 10.1177/0193841X07303867
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    1. Blau, David M. & Tekin, Erdal, 2001. "The Determinants and Consequences of Child Care Subsidies for Single Mothers," IZA Discussion Papers 383, Institute of Labor Economics (IZA).
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