Women’s Control Over Economic Resources Effect to Family Welfare

Welfare Reforms , Family Resources , and Child Maltreatment

Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, Vol. 22, No. 1, 85–113 (2003) © 2003 by the Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management Published by Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Published online in Wiley InterScience (www.interscience.wiley.com) DOI: 10.1002/pam10097 Manuscript received May 2001; review completed August 2001; revision completed December 2001; revision review completed March 200...

Granularity, Time, and Control of Economic Resources

Opportunity cost is a central concept in decision making. It is difficult to measure because it is the value associated with opportunities foregone. In this paper, we characterize three timebased dimensions of resources to help understand and estimate opportunity costs. These dimensions capture the intrinsic lumpiness of resources with respect to their acquisition (acquisition granularity), the...

Family economic resources in the post-reform era.

Aided by the longest economic expansion in U.S. history and other policy changes designed to make work pay, federal welfare reform legislation has spurred mothers to leave welfare at an unprecedented rate. The majority of mothers who left welfare are working, but most have jobs with low pay and limited benefits. This article discusses the relationship between economic resources and child well-b...

Unemployment and Economic Welfare

David Andolfatto is a professor of economics at the the University of Waterloo and the University of Western Ontario. Paul Gomme is an economic advisor at the Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland. Both authors are members of the Centre for Research on Economic Fluctuations and Employment in Montreal, Canada. They thank LutzAlexander Busch, Gordon Myers, and Ed Nosal for helpful comments and critic...

Subjective Economic Welfare