RAND Conference on New Advances in Welfare Research

Dave Stapleton, Lewin Group: A Pooled Time-Series Analysis of State-level AFDC Caseloads

Discussant: Werner Schink, State of California Dept. of Social Services

Jacob Klerman, RAND: Power Considerations in Estimating Fertility Effects of Welfare

Mark Rosenzweig, University of Pennsylvania: Welfare, Marital Prospects and Nonmarital Childbearing

Discussant: Robert Moffitt, Johns Hopkins University

Jeff Grogger, University of California, Santa Barbara: The Effect of Welfare Payment on the Marriage and Fertility Behavior of Unwed Mothers: Results from a Twins Experiment

Dan Gaylin, Lewin Group; Irv Garfinkel, Columbia University; Sara McLanahan, Princeton University: Does Child Support Enforcement Reduce Nonmarital Childbearing?

Discussant: Robert Plotnick, University of Washington

Janet Currie, University of California, Los Angeles and NBER; Duncan Thomas, RAND and University of California, Los Angeles: Does Head Start Help Hispanic Children?

Discussant: Judith Seltzer, University of Wisconsin

Jonathan Gruber, MIT: Cash Welfare as a Consumption Smoothing Mechanism for Single Mothers

Discussant: Robert Schoeni, RAND

Carolyn J. Hill, University of Chicago; V. Joseph Hotz, University of Chicago; Charles H. Mullin, University of Chicago; John Karl Scholz, University of Wisconsin-Madison: EITC and Welfare Dynamics

Discussant: David Ellwood, Harvard University

Thomas MaCurdy, Stanford University; Margaret O'Brien-Strain, Stanford University: Who Benefits and Who Pays for Minimum Wages?

Discussant: Lowell J. Taylor, Carnegie Mellon University

Richard Burkhauser, Syracuse University; Ken Couch, University of Connecticut: Public Policies for the Working Poor

Discussant: Nada Eissa, University of California, Berkeley

James Heckman, University of Chicago; Hidehiko Ichimura, University of Pittsburgh; Jeffrey Smith, University of Western Ontario; Petra Todd, University of Pennsylvania: Matching as an Econometric Estimator: Theory and Evidence

Discussant: Guido Imbens, Harvard University

Anu Rangarajan, Mathematica Policy Research: The Transition from Welfare to Work: An In-depth Look at Employment Patterns and Barriers to Job Retention

Discussant: Wei-Yin Hu, University of California, Los Angeles

Larry Orr, Abt Associates; Erik Beecroft, Abt Associates: Why Don't Welfare Recipients' Earnings Gains Lead to Benefit Reductions? Evidence from the National JTPA Study

Discussant: Robert Reville, RAND

Hilary Hoynes, University of California, Berkeley: Local Labor Market and Welfare Spells: Do Demand Conditions Matter?

Discussant: Lee Lillard, RAND