Contents
Contributors
Part I. Introduction and Policy Context
Chapter 1. For Better and For Worse: Welfare Reform and the Well-Being of Children and Families \ Greg J. Duncan and P. Lindsay Chase-Lansdale
Chapter 2. Liberal and Conservative Influences on the Welfare Reform Legislation of 1996 \ Ron Haskins
Part II. What States Are Thinking and Doing
Chapter 3. Welfare Reform, Management Systems, and Policy Theories of Child Well-Being \ Cathy M. Johnson and Thomas L. Gais
Chapter 4. How Do State Policymakers Think About Family Processes and Child Development in Low-Income Families? \ Kristin Anderson Moore
Chapter 5. Program Redesign by States in the Wake of Welfare Reform: Making Sense of the Effects of Devolution \ Alan Weil
Chapter 6. Sanctions and Exits: What States Know About Families That Leave Welfare Because of Sanctions and Time Limits \ Jack Tweedie
Part III. How Families and Children Are Faring
Chapter 7. How Different Are Welfare and Working Families? And Do These Differences Matter for Children’s Achievement? \ Greg J. Duncan, Rachel E. Dunifon, Morgan B. Ward Doran, and W. Jean Yeung
Chapter 8. My Children Come First: Welfare-Reliant Women’s Post-TANF Views of Work-Family Trade-Offs and Marriage \ Ellen K. Scott, Kathryn Edin, Andrew S. London, and Joan Maya Mazelis
Chapter 9. Does Maternal Employment Mandated by Welfare Reform Affect Children’s Behavior? \ Ariel Kalil, Rachel E. Dunifon, and Sandra K. Danziger
Chapter 10. Lessons from New Hope: The Impact on Children’s Well-Being of a Work-Based Antipoverty Program for Parents \ Rashmita S. Mistry, Danielle A. Crosby, Aletha C. Huston, David M. Casey, and Marika N. Ripke
Chapter 11. How Families View and Use Lump-Sum Payments from the Earned Income Tax Credit \ Jennifer L. Romich and Thomas S. Weisner
Chapter 12. Welfare Waivers and Nonmarital Childbearing \ Ann E. Horvath-Rose and H. Elizabeth Peters
Part IV. Policy Approaches and Options for the Future
Chapter 13. Reducing Child Poverty by Improving the Work-Based Safety Net \ Wendell Primus and Kristina Daugirdas
Chapter 14. Effects of Welfare Reform at Four Years \ Ron Haskins
Chapter 15. Reforming the Social Family Contract: Public Support for Child Rearing in the United States \ Paula England and Nancy Folbre
Chapter 16. Lessons Learned \ P. Lindsay Chase-Lansdale and Greg J. Duncan
Index