For better and for worse : welfare reform and the well-being of children and families

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For better and for worse: welfare reform and the well-being of children and families / Greg J. Duncan, P. Lindsay Chase-Lansdale -- Liberal and conservative influences on the welfare reform legislation of 1996 / Ron Haskins -- Welfare reform, management systems, and policy theories of child well-being / Cathy M. Johnson, Thomas L. Gais -- How do state policymakers think about family processes and child development in low-income families? / Kristin Anderson Moore -- Program redesign by states in the wake of welfare reform: making sense of the effects of devolution / Alan Weil -- Sanctions and exits: what states know about families that leave welfare because of sanctions and time limits / Jack Tweedie -- How different are welfare and working families? And do these differences matter for children's achievement? / Greg J. Duncan [and others] -- My children come first: welfare-reliant women's post-TANF views of work-family trade-offs and marriage / Ellen K. Scott [and others] -- Does maternal employment mandated by welfare reform affect children's behavior? / Ariel Kalil, Rachel E. Dunifon, Sandra K. Danziger -- Lessons from New Hope: the impact on children's well-being of a work-based antipoverty program for parents / Rashmita S. Mistry [and others] -- How families view and use lump-sum payments from the earned income tax credit / Jennifer L. Romich, Thomas S. Weisner -- Welfare waivers and nonmarital childbearing / Ann E. Horvath-Rose, H. Elizabeth Peters -- Reducing child poverty by improving the work-based safety net / Wendell Primus, Kristina Daugirdas -- Effects of welfare reform at four years / Ron Haskins -- Reforming the social family contract: public support for child learning in the United States / Paula England, Nancy Folbre -- Lessons learned / P. Lindsay Chase-Lansdale, Greg J. Duncan.