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The economic environment of childhood
Duncan, Greg, 1992
In A.C. Huston (Ed.), Children in poverty: Child development and public policy (pp. 23-50). New York: Cambridge University Press

A summary of the economic environment of childhood with special emphasis on trends in the average level of family economic resources available to poverty children

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Effects of welfare and employment policies on young children: New findings on policy experiments conducted in the early 1990s
Morris, Pamela A., 2005
Social Policy Report, 19(2)

A policy report analyzing previous research on how preschool children's development is affected by welfare policies, particularly those that increase parental employment and income

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Five thousand American families: Patterns of economic progress: Vol. I. An analysis of the first five years of the Panel Study of Income Dynamics
Morgan, James N., 1974
Ann Arbor: University of Michigan, Institute for Social Research.

An analysis of the factors affecting families’ well-being, economic opportunity and educational attainment, based on data gathered from the 1968-1972 Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID)

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For better and for worse: Welfare reform and the well-being of children and families
Duncan, Greg, 2004
New York: Russell Sage Foundation

An examination of the evidence and evaluation of whether welfare reform has met one of its chief goals--improving the well-being of the nation's poor children

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Higher ground: New Hope for the working poor and their children
Duncan, Greg, 2007
New York: Russell Sage Foundation

An evaluation of the short- and long-term effects of the New Hope program on the outcomes of the low-income participants and their children

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How different are welfare and working families? And do these differences matter for children's achievement?
Duncan, Greg, 2001
In For better and for worse: Welfare reform and the well-being of children and families (pp. 103-131). New York: Russell Sage Foundation.

A nationally representative, longitudinal study comparing welfare-receiving families to working families to determine if the differences have an impact on children's well-being

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How different are welfare and working families?: And do those differences matter for children's achievement? [Preliminary conference draft]
Duncan, Greg, 1998
Paper presented at the Family Process and Child Development in Low-Income Families conference of the Joint Center for Poverty Research, Chicago.

A comparison between families receiving Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC) and middle class and low-socioeconomic working families in regard to mental health, time organization, household management, and financial expenditures, based on two longitudinal surveys, the National Survey of Families and Households and the Panel Study of Income Dynamics

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The incentives of government programs and the well-being of families
Meyer, Bruce D., 2000
Chicago: Joint Center for Poverty Research.

An examination of the material conditions of single mothers and their families before and soon after welfare reform in order to assess the net effect of policy changes on the well-being of families, using data from the Consumer Expenditure Survey and the Panel Study of Income Dynamics

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Lessons from New Hope: The impact on children's well-being of a work-based antipoverty program for parents
Mistry, Rashmita S., 2001
In For better and for worse: Welfare reform and the well-being of children and families (pp. 179-200). New York: Russell Sage Foundation.

A longitudinal, randomized study evaluating New Hope's (an employment-based antipoverty program) effects on children's well being and an investigation of why the effects occurred

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Welfare reform, management systems, and policy theories of child well-being
Johnson, Cathy M., 2001
In G. Duncan & P.L. Chase-Lansdale (Eds.), For better and for worse: Welfare weform and the well-being of children and families (pp. 37-52). New York: Russell Sage Foundation

An examination of the influence of local and state welfare reform policies and implementation procedures on the interests of children after the 1996 Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act (PRWORA)

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Welfare-to-work initiatives
Brady-Smith, Christy, 2003
In J. Brooks-Gunn, A.S. Fuligni, & L.J. Berlin (Eds.), Early Child Development in the 21st Century: Profiles of Current Research Initiatives (pp. 225-278). New York: Teachers College Press

An overview of five studies examining the effects of welfare-to-work programs on school age, low income children and their families

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