Welfare reform and the caseload decline

Family and Child Well-being After Welfare Reform

Volumn , Issue , 2017, Pages 35-66

  Besharov, Douglas J ^a,b   Germanis, Peter ^b  

^a AMERICAN ENTERPRISE INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

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