PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Jeffrey Grogger
TI  - Time Limits and Welfare Use
AID  - 10.3368/jhr.XXXIX.2.405
DP  - 2004 Mar 31
TA  - Journal of Human Resources
PG  - 405--424
VI  - XXXIX
IP  - 2
4099  - http://jhr.uwpress.org/content/XXXIX/2/405.short
4100  - http://jhr.uwpress.org/content/XXXIX/2/405.full
SO  - J Hum Resour2004 Mar 31; XXXIX
AB  - Time limits represent a substantial departure from previous welfare policy. Theory suggests that their effects should vary according to the age of the youngest child of the family. I test this prediction using data from the Current Population Survey and find that time limits indeed have larger effects on families with younger children. I further estimate that anticipatory responses to time limits have decreased welfare use by 6 to 7 percent, accounting for 12 to 13 percent of the decline in welfare use during the late 1990s.