Status of Research on the
Outcomes of Welfare Reform

A Report to the Congressional Appropriations Committees

Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services

December 2000

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http://aspe.hhs.gov/hsp/welf-ref-outcomes00/index.htm

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Contents

Chapters:

1. Introduction and Overview
   • Background
   • General Strategies for Understanding the Outcomes of Welfare Reform
   • Future Directions
   • Activities that Support Conferees' Recommendations
2. Results/Findings from Outcomes-Funded Projects
   • Highlights of Research Findings
   • National Academy of Sciences Panel Study on Welfare Outcomes
   • Findings from ASPE-Funded Leavers Studies (Grants to Study Welfare Outcomes)
   • Interpreting TANF Leaver Studies: Comparing ASPE Grantee States to the Nation as a Whole
   • Follow-up on the Wisconsin Project for Tracking Former Welfare Recipients
   • Welfare Reform and the Health and Economic Status of Immigrants and the Organizations that Serve Them
   • Understanding the AFDC/TANF Child-Only Caseload
   • Advancing States' Child Indicators Initiatives
   • Research Uses of Emergency TANF Report Data
   • Archiving of AFDC Data
3. Projects Funded by the FY2000 Appropriation to Study Welfare Outcomes/Leavers
   • Major New Projects
     • Researcher Initiated Grants on Welfare Outcomes
     • Grants to States and Localities to Enhance Studies of Welfare-Related Outcomes
     • Synthesis of Welfare Outcomes Grants
     • Trends in the Economic Well-Being of Low-Income Americans
     • Low-Income/Low-Skilled Workers' Involvement in the Temporary/Contingent Employment Sector
     • Mental Health and Employment
     • Linking State TANF Policies to Outcomes: A Preliminary Assessment
     • Alternate Kinship Care Programs Set up Outside of TANF and Foster Care
     • Implementation of Welfare Reform at the Local Level: Implications for Special Populations
     • Transition Events in the Dynamics of Poverty
     • Understanding the Declines in Teen Birth Rate
     • Young Mothers' Transitions on and off TANF: How do Child Care Assistance, Job Training, and Social Supports Influence these Decisions?
     • Access to Welfare Outcomes Data Sets
   • Other New Projects
     • How Low-Wage Working Families Cope as Parents and Workers
     • From Prisons to Home: The Effect of Incarceration on Children, Families, and Low-Income Communities
     • The Feasibility of Replicating the Women's Employment Study
     • Support to the New Immigrant Survey
     • Poor Families with Infants and Toddlers
     • Research Design Framework for the FPLS Database
     • The Effects of the Work Pays Demonstration, EITC Expansions and the Business Cycle on the Labor Market Behavior of the California Caseload
     • Enhancement of the Study of Trends in Emergency Assistance Related to TANF
     • Conference on Developing Public Policy Applications with the American Community Survey and Local Administrative Records
     • Support for use of NDNH for Welfare Outcomes Research
     • Quick Turnaround Analyses under Welfare Reform
     • State and Local Telephone Survey to Assess the Incidence of Children with Special Health Care Needs
     • Support for the Research Forum on Children, Families, and the New Federalism Database and Web Site
   • Major Projects Continued from FYs 1998 and/or 1999
     • National Academy of Sciences Panel Study on Welfare Outcomes
     • Devolution and Urban Change
     • Support for Iowa State University SPD Project
     • Use of Social Security Summary Earnings Records to Assess Welfare Reform Outcomes
     • Continuation of New Jersey Welfare/Substance Abuse Evaluation
     • Technical Assistance on Researcher Access to Data Sets
     • Research Technical Assistance on State Child Indicators Initiatives
     • South Carolina Welfare Outcomes Grant
4. Update on Other Continuing Projects Funded by the FY 1998 and FY 1999 Appropriations to Study Welfare Outcomes/Leavers
   • Continuation of 1998 Grants to States and Localities to Study Welfare Outcomes
   • Grants to States and Localities to Study Welfare Reform Outcomes, with an Emphasis on Diversion
   • Research Grants on Welfare Outcomes
   • Welfare Reform and the Health and Economic Status of Immigrants and the Organizations that Serve Them
   • Welfare Reform and Its Implications for Persons with Disabilities
   • Supporting Families After Welfare Reform: Access to Medicaid, S-CHIP and Food Stamps
   • Los Angeles Family and Neighborhood Survey (L.A. FANS)
   • Follow-up on the Wisconsin Project for Tracking Former Welfare Recipients
   • Technical Assistance to Welfare Outcomes Grantees
   • Trends in the Demand for Assistance Services
   • The Working Poor Population: Data Analysis on Definitions, Composition and Outcomes
   • Rural Working Poor

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