Welfare Reform
Books, Monographs, and Papers
JPAM Classics: Poverty, Welfare, and Public Policy - Introduction [PDF], Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, 2009
- Douglas J. Besharov and Douglas M. Call
- Two Cheers for American Welfare
Reform -- Lessons Learned, Questions Raised, Next Steps [PDF], Policy Exchange, 2008
- Douglas J. Besharov
- Social
Welfare Conservatism [PDF], AEI On the Issue, January 2008
- Douglas J. Besharov
- Beyond
the Safety Net: A Brief Review Forty Years after the War on Poverty [PDF], November 3, 2006
- Douglas J. Besharov
- Two Cheers
for Welfare Reform, AEI On the Issue, August 2006
- Douglas J. Besharov
- Full-Engagement Welfare in New
York City: Lessons for TANF's Participation Requirements [PDF], August 2004
- Douglas J. Besharov and Peter Germanis
- Toughening
TANF [PDF], March 2004
- Douglas J. Besharov and Peter Germanis
- Creating a
Marketplace for Social Welfare Services [PDF], December 12, 2003
- Douglas J. Besharov
- The Past and Future
of Welfare Reform, Public Interest, Winter 2003
- Douglas J. Besharov
- Family Well-Being
After Welfare Reform, 2003
- Douglas J. Besharov, Ed.
- Four Evaluations of Welfare
Reform: What Will Be Learned, 2001
- Douglas J. Besharov and Peter Germanis, ed., Peter H. Rossi
- Data Needs for Measuring
Family and Fertility Change After Welfare Reform, June 2001
- Douglas J. Besharov, ed., William D. Mosher and Joyce C. Abma, Stephanie J. Ventura, and Stanley K. Henshaw
Child
Care after Welfare Reform [PDF], 2001
- Douglas J. Besharov and Nazanin Samari
- Welfare Reform: Four Years
Later, Public Interest, Summer 2000
- Douglas J. Besharov and Peter Germanis
- The Next Challenge:
It's finding jobs for those with physical or mental problems, illiterates, and those with drug and alcohol
problems [PDF], in "Special Report---Is Welfare Reform Working?" The World & I, January 2000
- Douglas J. Besharov
- Making Food Stamps
Part of Welfare Reform [PDF], Policy & Practice, June 1999
- Douglas J. Besharov and Peter Germanis
- Preventing Subsequent Births to
Welfare Mothers
- Douglas J. Besharov and Peter Germanis, ed.
- Evaluating Welfare
Reform: A Guide for Scholars and Practitioners, 1997 (PDF Version).
- Douglas J. Besharov, Peter Germanis and Peter H. Rossi
- Why Can't GOP Stand, Deliver
Against Clinton? [PDF] Insight on the News, August 11, 1997
- Douglas J. Besharov
- Bottom-up
Funding [PDF], 1996
- Douglas J. Besharov
- Health Related Welfare
Rules [PDF], November 1996
- Douglas J. Besharov, Kristina Tanasichuk White, and Mark B. Coggeshall
- Welfare
Reform and Marriage [PDF], The Public Interest, Fall 1996
- Douglas J. Besharov and Timothy S. Sullivan
- Welfare
as We Know It [PDF], Slate, July 16, 1996
- Douglas J. Besharov
- Work,
Not Job Training [PDF], AEI On the Issue, February 28, 1996
- Douglas J. Besharov
- Paternalism
and Welfare Reform [PDF], The Public Interest, Winter 1996
- Douglas J. Besharov and Karen N. Gardiner
- Using Work to
Reform Welfare [PDF], Public Welfare, Summer 1995
- Douglas J. Besharov
- Reorienting the
Welfare State: "Bottom-up" vs. "Top-down" Funding [PDF], July 1995
- Douglas J. Besharov
- On the Reform
of Welfare with Continued Dependency [PDF], Jobs & Capital, Winter 1995
- Douglas J. Besharov
- Making Illegitimacy
Inconvenient: the Hard Truth about Welfare Reform [PDF], Crisis, March 1994
- Douglas J. Besharov
- Making Welfare Work: Building a System
that Strengthens the Family, the Individual, the Community, Rising Tide, January/February 1994
- Douglas J. Besharov
- Welfare
Reform, Or Just Renewal -- Economic Complications of Welfare Reform, [PDF] Insight, December 13, 1993
- Douglas J. Besharov
- The End of Welfare
as We Know It? [PDF] The Public Interest, April 1, 1993
- Douglas J. Besharov and Amy Fowler
- The Moral Voice of Welfare
Reform [PDF], 1993
- Douglas J. Besharov
- The Moral Dimensions
of Charity [PDF], Alternatives in Philanthropy, May 1992
- Douglas J. Besharov
- The New Paternalism:
Beware of Unintended Consequences: Too Many Questions Remain Unanswered [PDF], Public Welfare, Spring 1992
- Douglas J. Besharov
- Go Slow on the New Paternalism:
paper prepared for "The Children's Roundtable" retreat at Boca Raton Resort and Club, Florida, February 13-16, 1992
- Douglas J. Besharov
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Op-Eds
- The
Right Kind of Hand Up [PDF], The Washington Post, November 19, 2007
- Douglas J. Besharov
- End
Welfare
Lite as We Know It [PDF], The New York Times, August 15, 2006
- Douglas J. Besharov
- There's
More to Welfare Reform [PDF], The New York Times, March 6, 2004
- Douglas J. Besharov
- Welfare
Rolls: On the Rise Again [PDF], The Washington Post, July 16, 2002
- Douglas J. Besharov
- Clinton
Undermines Welfare Reform--With GOP Help [PDF], The Wall Street Journal, July 10, 1997
- Douglas J. Besharov
- Tightening the Welfare
Noose (PDF version), The
New York Times, January 15, 1997
- Douglas J. Besharov
- How to Help Welfare
Mothers (PDF version),
The New York Times, November 13, 1996
- Douglas J. Besharov
- Inner City Blues
(PDF version),
The Washington Post, October 13, 1996
- Douglas J. Besharov
- Shaping the Debate on
Welfare Reform (PDF version), The Washington
Post, August 11, 1996
- Douglas J. Besharov
- Waivers Change the Face of
Welfare [PDF], The Los Angeles Times, June 20, 1996
- Douglas J. Besharov
- Welfare: An
Albatross for Young Mothers [PDF], The Wall Street Journal, February 28, 1996
- Douglas J. Besharov
- A Monster of His Own
Creation (PDF version), The Washington
Post, Novemer 2, 1995
- Douglas J. Besharov
- Don't Expect Miracles;
But a Few Rules Would Go a Long Way Toward Fixing the Welfare Mess
(PDF version), The
Washington Post, July 23, 1995
- Douglas J. Besharov
- The Welfare Balloon:
Squeeze Hard on One Side and the Other Side Will Just Expand
(PDF version), The Washington
Post, June 11, 1995
- Douglas J. Besharov
- Orphanages Aren't Real Issue [PDF],
The Plano Star Courier, January 29, 1995
- Douglas J. Besharov
- To
Curb Welfare Use, Make It Uncomfortable (Letter to the Editor) [PDF], The Wall Street
Journal, April 27, 1994
- Douglas J. Besharov
- Working
to Make Welfare a Chore [PDF], The Wall Street Journal, February, 1994
- Douglas J. Besharov
- Orphanages Aren't Welfare Reform [PDF],
The New York Times, January 20, 1994
- Douglas J. Besharov
- Escaping the Dole: For Young Unwed
Mothers, Welfare Reform Alone Can’t Make Work Pay [PDF], The Washington Post, December 12, 1993
- Douglas J. Besharov
- Welfare As We Don't Know
It (PDF version), The Washington Post, July 4, 1993
- Douglas J. Besharov
- The Perverse Federal
Incentive for Welfare Cuts (PDF version), Governing, February 1993
- Douglas J. Besharov and Karen Baehler
- That Other Clinton
Promise -- Ending "Welfare as We Know It" [PDF], The Wall Street Journal, January 18, 1993
- Douglas J. Besharov
- Cautions for the
New Paternalism (PDF version), The Washington Post, January 5, 1992
- Douglas J. Besharov
- Go Slow on Welfare
Reform [PDF], The Wall Street Journal, March 18, 1987
- Douglas J. Besharov
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Working Papers
- Leaving Welfare
Without Working: How do mothers do it? And what are the implications? [PDF]
- Douglas J. Besharov
- Mandatory Work-Related
Activities for Welfare Recipients: The Next Step in Welfare Reform [PDF]
- Marie Cohen
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Conference Papers
Welfare Reform Two Years Later
, July 30, 1998
- Welfare Reform:
Two Years Later (Notes.)
- Douglas J. Besharov
- Remarks.
- Lawrence Mead
Pregnancy Prevention and Welfare Reform
, June 5, 1998
- Opening Remarks
- Douglas J. Besharov
- Parents and Teens on Love, Sex, and
Relationships: Research, Parents Tips, and Polling Data. (PDF Version.)
- Sarah Brown
- Repeat Pregnancy for Those
Not Pregnant at Program Entry
- Marva Hammons
- Is There a Link Between Welfare
Reform and Teen Pregnancy?
- Richard Nathan
- Understanding the Rise in
Illegitimacy (Slides. Tables.)
- Robert Rector
Child Care and Welfare Reform
, April 3, 1998
- Child Care Falling
Short for Low-Income and Working Families. (Talking Points)
- Helen Blank
- Child Care and Welfare
Reform.
- The Hon. Larry E. Craig
- Managed Day Care Makes
Its Debut
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- Head Start and Welfare
Reform [PDF]
- Wade F. Horn
- Spending on Early
Childhood Care Programs and Research: An Analysis of Federal Departments, State Governments, and
Foundations [PDF]
- Pamela Jones, Christine Ross, and Stuart Kerachsky
- State Efforts to
Expand Child Care Programs (GAO Report - PDF. Slides.)
- Mark Nadel
- Child Care and Welfare Reform: The Wisconsin Experience. (Remarks. PDF Slides: 1-3, 4, 5, 6.)
- John Weicher
Welfare Reform: What Happens After Time Limits, Sanctions, and
Diversions?
, February 6, 1998
- Time Limiting Welfare: Lessons
from the States
- Judith Gueron
- The New Welfare: Diversions,
Sanctions, Time Limits
- Lawrence M. Mead
- Keynote Remarks
- The Hon. Donna Shalala
- Florida's Work and Gain Economic
Self-Sufficiency (WAGES) Program [PDF]
- Don Winstead
Abstinence Education Grants and Welfare Reform
, June 6, 1997
- Trends in Sexual Activity and
Abstinence Among U.S. Men and Women (PDF Slides)
- Christine Bachrach
- Abstinence Education Grants
Under Welfare Reform
- David Bellis
- Making Abstinence Work
- Elayne Bennett
- Using Abstinence
Funding (Survey. Appendix.)
- Sarah Brown
- What Do We Know About Abstinence
Programs?
- Barbara Devaney
- Abstinence Education Under
Welfare Reform (Appendix A. Appendix
B. Table 1.)
- Ron Haskins and Carol Statuto Bevan
- Abstinence Education Grants
- Jodie Levin-Epstein
- Programs and Approaches
- Pat Funderburk Ware
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Congressional Testimony
- Testimony on State
Implementation of Work Requirements Under Welfare Reform, House Committee on Ways and Means, Subcommittee
on Human Resources, March 7, 2002 [PDF]
- Douglas J. Besharov
- Testimony on the Effects
of Welfare Reform, House Committee on Ways and Means, Subcommittee on Human Resources, May 27, 1999
- Douglas J. Besharov
- Testimony on Unmarried
Mothers and Welfare Reform, Senate Committee on Finance, March 14, 1995
- Douglas J. Besharov
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