Welfare Reform and Children: A Synthesis of Impacts in Five States. Project on State-Level Child Outcomes

摘要

This report focuses on the question of whether and how pilot welfare reform programs launched in five states Connecticut, Florida, Indiana, Iowa, and Minnesota affected childrens developmental outcomes. We synthesize results from experimental studies (in which follow-up interviews ranged from 2.5 to 6.5 years after random assignment) in the five states, looking first at adult economic outcomes that the programs aimed to change (targeted outcomes), then turning to aspects of young childrens lives including child care and the home environment--that may also have been changed by the programs, and focusing finally on how children themselves were affected by the programs.