The effects of welfare and tax reform: the material well-being of single mothers in the 1980s and 1990s

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The study examines the material conditions of single mothers and their families before and soon after welfare and tax reform in order to assess the net effect of recent policy changes on the well-being of these families. It concluded that the material conditions of single mothers did not decline in recent years, either in absolute terms or relative to single childless women or married mothers

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On the compassion of time-limited welfare programs

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The study investigated a theoretical case for compassionate time limits that benefit the welfare eligible, in a simple model with present-biased preferences. The study concluded that under some conditions the imposition of time limits could improve the well being of welfare recipients evaluated both in terms of time the long-run, time-consistent utility and the period-one selfEs utility.

Economic conditions

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The incidence of personal income taxation: evidence from the tax reform act of 1986

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The incidence of the personal income tax by examining the ways the wages changed for workers across occupations after the Tax Reform Act of 1986 is studied. It suggested that the effect of the 1986 tax reform on an individual depended not only on the individual's tax circumstances but also how other workers in the person's profession were affected by the changes.

Income tax

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