This paper examines the role of work as an incentive device in income maintenance programs in different informational environments. To that end, we make both the income generating ability and the disutility of labor of individuals unobservable, and compare the resulting benefit schedules with those of programs found in the United States since Welfare Reform (1996). We find that work requirement...

Workers’ compensation is one of the few State-administered income-maintenance programs operating throughout the United States. The national “system” that provides medical care and income-maintenance protection to workers disabled from workrelated injuries or illnesses actually consists of 50 independent State operations and several special Federal programs. The Social Security Administration (S...

BACKGROUND Despite high obesity prevalence rates, few low-income midlife women participate in weight loss maintenance trials. This pilot study aims to assess the effectiveness of two weight loss maintenance interventions in this under-represented population. METHODS Low-income midlife women who completed a 16-week weight loss intervention and lost  ≥ 8 lbs (3.6 kg) were eligible to enroll in ...

OBJECTIVE This study examined the role of demographic characteristics, psychological factors, and family functioning on attendance in a randomized controlled trial of a family-based pediatric obesity program. METHOD Participants included 155 children between the ages of 4 and 7 years (M age = 5.77, 57.4% female, 73.6% black, M body mass index = 25.5) and their primary caregivers who were rand...

Workers' compensation is one of the few State-administered income-maintenance programs operating throughout the United States. The national "system" to provide benefits for work-caused disability and death actually consists of 50 independent State operations and several special Federal programs. The Social Security Administration developed and continues to improve basic statistics to measure tr...

The organization of income-maintenance programs in the United States is mandated to a large extent by federal regulations, because most programs are funded by the federal government. However, the historically local nature of charity and relief in the United States has resulted in individual states and counties implementing most welfare programs.’ The system is far from unified, with a host of r...

In recent years, there has been growing discontent with the nation's welfare programs. The resulting discussions have produced a broad range of criticisms. It is said that present programs do not reach all of the poor; that benefits are too small for many of those who receive them; that eligibility tests are demeaning and incentives for self-betterment are stifled, with the result.that too many...

In April 19.56 the President’s Commission on Veterans’ Pensions submitted its report, Veterans’ Benejits in the United States: Findings and Recommendations. As part of the Bulletin’s continuing eflort to report developments in the major income-maintenance programs, the folkxving pages present a summary report by the technical adviser to the Commission, taken from the Findings and Recommendation...