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Direct linkRossin-Slater, Maya; Ruhm, Christopher J.; Waldfogel, Jane – Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, 2013
This analysis uses March Current Population Survey data from 1999 to 2010 and a differences-in-differences approach to examine how California's first in the nation paid family leave (PFL) program affected leave-taking by mothers following childbirth, as well as subsequent labor market outcomes. We obtain robust evidence that the California program…
Descriptors: Mothers, Fringe Benefits, Leaves of Absence, Evidence
Smeeding, Timothy M.; Waldfogel, Jane – Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, 2010
This article discusses the implication of the implementation of anti-poverty policy in both the United Kingdom and the United States. International studies of child poverty usually find that the United States and United Kingdom are at the bottom of the league table in terms of child poverty. Indeed, the U.S. and U.K do not fare well in…
Descriptors: Poverty, Public Policy, Children, Poverty Programs
Han, Wen-Jui; Ruhm, Christopher; Waldfogel, Jane – Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, 2009
We describe trends in maternal employment and leave-taking after birth of a newborn and analyze the extent to which these behaviors are influenced by parental leave policies. Data are from the June Current Population Survey (CPS) Fertility Supplements, merged with other months of the CPS, and cover the period 1987 to 1994. This time span is one…
Descriptors: Mothers, Employed Parents, Fathers, Leaves of Absence
Hills, John; Waldfogel, Jane – Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, 2004
U.S. welfare reforms, whether promoting work first or human capital development, have had in common an emphasis on employment as the key to improving the life chances of children living in single-mother families. We describe in this article a different type of reform--a "third way" in welfare reform. The welfare reforms carried out in the United…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Employment, Tax Credits, Social Isolation
Paxson, Christina; Waldfogel, Jane – Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, 2003
This paper examines the impact of welfare reforms on several measures of child maltreatment. The authors use state-level data from 1990 to 1998 to examine whether recent welfare reforms have increased or reduced the incidence of reported and substantiated cases of maltreatment, the incidence of specific types of substantiated…
Descriptors: Incidence, Tax Credits, Taxes, Sanctions
Hill, Jennifer; Waldfogel, Jane; Brooks-Gunn, Jeanne – Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, 2002
In policy research a frequent aim is to estimate treatment effects separately by subgroups. This endeavor becomes a methodological challenge when the subgroups are defined by post-treatment, rather than pre-treatment, variables because if analyses are performed in the same way as with pre-treatment variables, causal interpretations are no longer…
Descriptors: Child Care, Test Bias, Policy Analysis, Policy Formation
