My area of specialty is micro services for woman receiving welfare benefits.
Hotz, V., Imbens, G. W., & Klerman, J. A. (2006). Evaluating the Differential Effects of Alternative Welfare-to-Work Training Components: A Reanalysis of the California GAIN Program. Journal Of Labor Economics, 24(3), 521-566. This article evaluates human subjects that are randomly assigned to a type of welfare reform treatment versus a control group that may or may not be combined with non-experimental methods to estimate the differential effects of alternative treatments in the fight for a better welfare reform.
This article was particularly interesting to me because it focuses on the way different forms of welfare reform effect woman, such as the gain program. There was a 63% increase of …show more content…
E. (2004). The Costly Pursuit of Self-Esteem. Psychological Bulletin, 130(3), 392-414. doi:10.1037/0033-2909.130.3.392
This article investigates whether family background characteristics, self-esteem, and personal efficacy measured early in life relate to welfare use in young adulthood. Also looking at family demographic variables, such as family structure and poverty status in a woman 's family of origin, and have largely ignored the potential role of self-esteem and self-efficacy.
This article looks at a lot of the issues that could be affecting welfare recipients such as learned helplessness and enabling .Also how welfare can cause stigma and long-term participation in welfare diminishes self-esteem and self-efficacy among low-income single mothers, because recipients are placed in a humiliating relationship with the welfare system. Which are my feeling also and one way the welfare cycle begins.
Bane, M. J., and D. Ellwood. (1983). “The Dynamics of Dependence: The Routes to Self
Sufficiency,” Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation, U.S.
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