Immigrants, welfare reform, and the economy

Journal of Policy Analysis and Management

Volumn 23, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 745-764

  Haider, Steven J ^a   Schoeni, Robert F ^b,c   Bao, Yuhua ^d   Danielson, Caroline ^e  

^a MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Institute for Social

^c UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EID: 4944236917     PISSN: 02768739     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/pam.20045     Document Type: Review

References (36)

1. Bavier, R. (2000). Accounting for increases in failure to report AFDC/TANF receipt. Unpublished manuscript. Office of Management and Budget, Washington, DC.
2. Betts, J., & Lofstrom, M. (1998). The educational attainment of immigrants: Trends and implications, Working Paper No. W6757. Cambridge, MA: National Bureau of Economic Research.
3. Blank, R. (2003). Evaluating welfare reform in the U.S. Journal of Economic Literature, 40(4), 1105-1166.
4. Borjas, G. (2000). Welfare reform and immigration. Unpublished manuscript. Harvard University, Cambridge, MA.
5. Carmody, K., & Dean, S. (1998). New federal food stamp restoration for legal immigrants: Implications and implementation issues. Washington, DC: Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, July.
6. CEA [Council of Economic Advisers] (1997). Technical report: Explaining the decline in welfare receipt, 1993-96. Washington, DC: Council of Economic Advisors.
7. CEA [Council of Economic Advisers] (1999). Technical report: The effects of welfare policy and the economic expansion on welfare caseloads: An update. Washington, DC: Council of Economic Advisors.
8. Committee on Ways and Means (1998). 1998 Green book. Washington, DC: Government Printing Office.
9. Congressional Budget Office (1995). Immigration and welfare reform, CBO Papers. Washington, DC: Congressional Budget Office.
10. Currie, J., & Grogger, J. (2001). Explaining recent declines in the food stamp program participation. Brookings Papers on Urban Affairs, pp. 203-244.
11. Ellwood, M., & Ku, L. (1998). Welfare and immigration reforms: Unintended side effects for Medicaid. Health Affairs, 17(3), 137-151.
12. Figlio, D., Gundersen, C., & Ziliak, J. (2000). The effects of the macroeconomy and welfare reform on food stamp caseloads. American Journal of Agricultural Economics, 82(3), 635-641.
13. Fix, M., & Passel, J. (1999). Trends in noncitizens' and citizens' use of public benefits following welfare reform: 1994-97. Unpublished manuscript. Urban Institute, Washington, DC.
14. Fix, M., & Zimmerman, W. (1999). All under one roof: Mixed-status families in an era of reform. Unpublished manuscript. Urban Institute, Washington, DC.
15. Grogger, J. (2003). The effects of time limits and other policy changes on welfare use, work, and income among female headed families. Review of Economics and Statistics, 85(2), 394-408.
16. Haider, S., Klerman, J., & Roth, E. (2003). The relationship between the economy and the welfare caseload: A dynamic approach. Research in Labor Economics, 22, 39-69.
17. Johnson, H., Reyes, B., Mameesh, L., & Barbour, E. (1999). Taking the oath: An analysis of naturalization in California and the United States. San Francisco, CA: Public Policy Institute of California.
18. Kaestner, R., & Kaushal, N. (in press). Immigrant and native responses to welfare reform. Journal of Population Economics.
19. Klerman, J., & Haider, S. (in press). A stock-flow model of the welfare caseload. Journal of Human Resources.
20. Ku, L., & Blaney, S. (2000). Health coverage for legal immigrant children: New census data highlight importance of restoring Medicaid and SCHIP coverage. Washington, DC: Center of Budget and Policy Priorities.
21. Lofstrom, M., & Bean, F. (2002). Assessing immigrant policy options: Labor market conditions and post reform declines in immigrants' receipt of welfare. Demography, 39(4), 617-638.
22. MaCurdy, T., & O'Brien-Strain, M. (1998). Reform reversed? The restoration of welfare benefits to immigrants in California. San Francisco, CA: Public Policy Institute of California.
23. Moffitt, R., & Ver Ploeg, M. (2001). Evaluating welfare reform in an era of transition. Washington, DC: National Academy Press.
24. Park, L., Sarnoff, R., Bender, C., & Korenbrot, C. (2000). Impact of recent welfare and immigration reforms on use of medicaid for prenatal care by immigrants in California. Journal of Immigrant Health, 2(1), 5-22.
25. Passel, M. (1996). Problems with March 1994 and 1995 weighting. Unpublished manuscript. Urban Institute, Washington, DC.
26. Schmidley, A., & Robinson, J. (1998). How well does the current population survey measure the foreign born population in the United States? Population Division Working Paper No. 22. Washington, DC: US Bureau of the Census.
27. Schoeni, R., & Blank, R. (2000). What has welfare reform accomplished? Impacts on welfare participation, employment, income, poverty, and family structure, Working Paper No. W7627. Cambridge, MA: National Bureau of Economic Research.
28. Smith, J., & Edmonston, B. (1997). The new Americans: Economic, demographic, and fiscal effects of immigration. Washington, DC: National Academy Press.
29. Solon, G., Barsky, R., & Parker, J. (1994). Measuring the cyclically of real wages: How important is composition bias? Quarterly Journal of Economics 40(1), 1-25.
30. Van Hook, J., & Bean, F. (1998). Estimating unauthorized Mexican migration to the United States: Issues and results. In Mexican Ministry of Foreign Affairs and U.S. Commission on Immigration Reform (Eds.), Binational study on migration between Mexico and the United States (vol. 2). Austin, TX: Morgan Printing.
31. Wallace, G., & Blank, R. (1999). What goes up must come down? Explaining recent changes. In S. Danziger (Ed.), Public assistance caseloads, in Economic Conditions and Welfare Reform (pp. 49-89). Kalamazoo, MI: WE. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research.
32. Wellens, T. (2001). The cognitive evaluation of the nativity questions for the current population survey. Washington, DC: US Bureau of the Census.
33. Ziliak, J., Figlio, D., Davis, E., & Connolly, L. (2000). Accounting for the decline in AFDC case-loads: Welfare reform or economic growth? Journal of Human Resources, 35(3), 570-586.
34. Zimmerman, W., & Fix, M. (1998). Declining immigrant applications for Medi-Cal and welfare benefits in Los Angeles County. Washington, DC: Urban Institute.
35. Zimmerman, W., & Tumlin, K. (1999). Patchwork policies: State assistance for immigrants under welfare reform. Occasional Paper No. 24. Washington, DC: Urban Institute.
36. Zimmerman, W., Tumlin, K., & Ost, J. (1999). State snapshots of public benefits for immigrants: A supplemental report to "patchwork policies." Occasional Paper No. 24 Supplemental Report. Washington, DC: Urban Institute.