Journal of Human Resources articles from September 1996

Journal of Human Resources archives from September 1996

Learning about treatment effects from experiments with random assignment of treatments.
September 22, 1996... I. Introduction Program evaluations are efforts to learn from experience in order to improve social decisions. Individuals try to learn from experience in order to improve their private decisions. Yet program evaluation is not the same as...

The impact of a continuous participation obligation in a welfare employment program.
September 22, 1996... I. Introduction Welfare reform efforts at both federal and state levels seek to convert the existing system of cash and in-kind entitlements to a system in which financial support for able-bodied individuals is granted only if the recipient...

Ethnic and racial self-employment differences and possible explanations.
September 22, 1996... I. Introduction Self-employment rates differ dramatically across ethnic and racial groups in the United States. For example, 1990 Census of Population data indicate that only 4.4 percent of employed African-American men and 2.0 percent of...

The impact of percentage-expressed child support orders on payments.
September 22, 1996... I. Introduction Since the mid-1970s, researchers and policymakers have increasingly focused on the child support system as a means of reducing poverty and welfare dependency among single-mother families. Increased scrutiny of this system has...

The effects of child support payments on developmental outcomes for elementary school-age children.
September 22, 1996... I. Introduction Children who grow up in single-parent families are more likely to drop out of school, to become unemployed, to form mother-only families, and to be poor as adults than children in two-parent families (Garfinkel and McLanahan...

Wealthier is healthier.
September 22, 1996... I. Introduction Wealthier nations are healthier nations. Figure 1 displays the simple association between per capita income(1) and two measures of a country's health performance, infant mortality and life expectancy. Both improve sharply with...

The responsiveness of the demand for condoms to the local prevalence of AIDS.
September 22, 1996... I. Introduction The increasing prevalence of HIV-positive cases and cases of AIDS, the disease caused by HIV, in the United States and elsewhere in the world has made the control of the pandemic a major policy concern in most countries...

The impact of welfare on young mothers' subsequent childbearing decisions.
September 22, 1996... I. Introduction The young woman who is dependent on public assistance, having child after child, has reemerged as the favorite symbol for politicians decrying the U.S. welfare system. Indeed, the fear that welfare programs like Aid to Families...