Using data from the Survey of Income and Program Participation, this study analyzes the effects of AFDC benefits on living arrangements in combination with welfare participation. The study finds high rates of cohabitation and marriage among women receiving welfare. As well, results from the multivariate models indicate that the welfare system influences the decisions to cohabit and receive welf...

United States has been fundamentally transformed. The 1996 welfare reform led to a dramatic reduction in the amount of state cash assistance and to the elimination of the Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC) program. At the same time, the amount of cash assistance given through the U.S. tax system increased substantially with the Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC). A Revolution in Povert...

Since the inception of Medicaid in 1965, the program has seen extraordinary growth in expenditures and enrollment. From 1989 to 1992, the increases in Medicaid spending were the largest since the program began in. Enrollment in Medicaid by AFDC families grew from 3.8 million in 1990 to 4.4 million in 1992, almost a nine percent annual increase (Coughlin et al. 1994). During this period, states ...

According to one view, government welfare programs of the last two decades (principally Aid to Families with Dependent Children, AFDC) have succeeded in aiding some groups but have left a residue of persons destined to perennial dependence on public support. Made up for the most part of the adult children of "welfare mothers," this subgroup has sometimes been portrayed as deficient not only in ...

We consider the estimation of nonlinear models with mismeasured explanatory variables, when information on the marginal distribution of the true values of these variables is available. We derive a semi-parametric MLE that is is shown to be √ n consistent and asymptotically normally distributed. In a simulation experiment we find that the finite sample distribution of the estimator is close to t...

In late fall 1984, more than 110,000 Wisconsin Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC) Medicaid recipients were enrolled in health maintenance organizations (HMO's). Capitation rates were set by competitive bidding, subject to a rate ceiling. Planners considered whether to adjust the rates to account for demographic changes in the AFDC population between the time that data for the rate c...

The current official U.S. poverty measure has been not only an important statistical indicator; it has also had direct policy uses in government programs that are designed to help low-income families whose resources fall below a standard of need. Many programs have their own need standard for eligibility, but a significant number link their standard to the official poverty thresholds (or a mult...

Welfare reform has transformed a needs-based family income support into temporary assistance for persons entering the workforce. This paper uses observations from an ethnographic study covering the period from 1995-2001 to examine the impact on drug-using welfare-needy households in inner-city New York. The analysis suggests that studies may underestimate the extent to which substance use is as...

This is the first of two articles that will examine the effect that the Old-Age, Survivors, and Disability Insurance (OASDI--Social Security) and the Supplemental Security Income (SSI) programs have in maintaining the income of poor and near poor families with children at a level that is at least equal to the poverty threshold. The articles also will evaluate the extent to which these programs ...