State TANF spending: Predictors of state tax effort to support welfare reform

Review of Policy Research

Volumn 23, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 745-759

  Rodgers Jr , Harrell R ^a   Tedin, Kent L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ECONOMIC CONDITIONS; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; TAX SYSTEM; WELFARE REFORM;

EID: 33646710656     PISSN: 1541132X     EISSN: 15411338     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1541-1338.2006.00227.x     Document Type: Article

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