Welfare Reform, Work-Family Tradeoffs, and Child Well-Being

Family Relations

Volumn 53, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 148-158

  London, Andrew S ^a   Scott, Ellen K ^b   Edin, Kathryn ^b   Hunter, Vicki ^b  

^a SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Child well being; Family; Low wage work; Maternal employment; Welfare reform; Work family

Indexed keywords

EID: 1842682897     PISSN: 01976664     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.0022-2445.2004.00005.x     Document Type: Review

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