TY  - JOUR
AU  - Grogger,Jeffrey
AU  - Karoly,Lynn
TI  - The Effects of Work-Conditioned Transfers on Marriage and Child Well-Being: A Review
JF  - National Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper Series
VL  - No. 13485
PY  - 2007
Y2  - October 2007
UR  - http://www.nber.org/papers/w13485
L1  - http://www.nber.org/papers/w13485.pdf
N1  - Author contact info:
Jeffrey Grogger
Irving B. Harris Professor of Urban Policy
Harris School of Public Policy
University of Chicago
1155 E. 60th Street
Chicago, IL   60637
Tel: 773/542-3533
Fax: 773/702-0926
E-Mail: jgrogger@uchicago.edu

Lynn Karoly
RAND
E-Mail: lynn_karoly@rand.org
AB  - Transfer payments to poor families are increasingly conditioned on work, either via wage subsidies available only to workers or via work requirements in more traditional welfare programs.  Although the effects of such programs on employment are fairly well understood, relatively little is known about their effects on marriage or child well-being.  We review a small number of studies that provide such information here.  Our discussion of marriage is couched in terms of a theoretical model that draws from the efficient-household literature.  The model is consistent with the wide range of effects that we observe and suggests an explanation for some of the observed differences.  The theoretical framework in which we couch our review of results on children is likewise consistent with the observed variation between programs and among children of different ages.
ER  -