Changing policies, changing impacts: Employment and earnings of child-care subsidy recipients in the era of welfare reform

Social Service Review

Volumn 74, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 587-617

  Queralt, Magaly ^a   Witte, Ann Dryden ^a   Griesinger, Harriet ^a  

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EID: 0039845332     PISSN: 00377961     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/516426     Document Type: Article

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