Welfare Reform and Indirect Impacts on Health

Marianne Bitler, Hilary W. Hoynes

NBER Working Paper No. 12642
Issued in October 2006

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This paper was prepared for the conference "Health Effects of Non-Health Policy" held in Washington, DC on February 9-10, 2006. The data used herein are derived from data files made available to researchers by the Manpower Demonstration Research Corporation (MDRC) and Mathematica Policy Research (MPR). We thank MDRC and MPR for assistance with the public use data. The authors remain solely responsible for how the data are used or interpreted. We thank Becky Blank, Jim House, George Kaplan, Harold Pollack, Bob Schoeni, Neeraj Sood and conference participants for helpful comments, and Peter Huckfeldt for excellent research assistance. The views expressed herein are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Bureau of Economic Research.

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