NPC Policy Briefs
Our Policy Briefs are designed to summarize key academic research findings, highlighting important implications for policy.
Index
Helping Disconnected Single Mothers. Rebecca M. Blank, Henry Carter Adams Collegiate Professor of Public Policy, Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy & Professor of Economics, University of Michigan and Robert V. Kerr Visiting Fellow at the Brookings Institution and Brian K. Kovak, Department of Economics, University of Michigan. (#10)
Education and Health. David Cutler, Otto Eckstein Professor of Applied Economics and Dean for the Social Sciences, Harvard University; and Adriana Lleras-Muney, Assistant Professor of Economics and Public Policy at the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University. (#9)
The New Face of the Low-Wage Workforce. George Borjas, Robert W. Scrivner Professor of Economics and Social Policy at the Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University. (#8)
Has Welfare Reform Changed State Expenditure Patterns? Therese J. McGuire , Kellogg School of Management and David F. Merriman , Loyola University (#7)
How Are Low-Skilled Women Doing in the Labor Market? Rebecca Blank, and Heidi Shierholz, University of Toronto (#6)
How Do Tax Policies Affect Low Income Workers? Kevin A. Hassett, The American Enterprise Institute and Anne B. Moore, University of California, Berkeley (#5)
Effects of Welfare Reform on the Supplemental Security Income (SSI) Program. Lucie Schmidt. (#4)
Family Support During the Transition to Adulthood. Robert Schoeni and Karen Ross. (#3)
Substance Abuse and Welfare Reform. Rukmalie Jayakody, Kristin Seefeldt, Sheldon Danziger, and Harold Pollack. (#2)
Changes in the Distribution of Children’s Family Income Over the 1990’s. Rebecca M. Blank and Robert F. Schoeni. (#1)