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Books, Monographs, and Papers

Family Well-Being After Welfare Reform

Douglas J. Besharov, Ed.

Four Evaluations of Welfare Reform: What Will Be Learned

Douglas J. Besharov and Peter Germanis, ed., Peter H. Rossi

Data Needs for Measuring Family and Fertility Change After Welfare Reform

Douglas J. Besharov, ed., William D. Mosher and Joyce C. Abma, Stephanie J. Ventura, and Stanley K. Henshaw

Preventing Subsequent Births to Welfare Mothers

Douglas J. Besharov and Peter Germanis, ed.

Evaluating Welfare Reform: A Guide for Scholars and Practitioners .

Douglas J. Besharov, Peter Germanis and Peter H. Rossi

Health Related Welfare Rules (PDF)

Douglas J. Besharov, Kristina Tanasichuk White, and Mark B. Coggeshall

Welfare Reform: Four Years Later, Public Interest, Summer 2000

Douglas J. Besharov and Peter Germanis

Op-Eds

Welfare Rolls: On the Rise Again, The Washington Post, July 16, 2002

Douglas J. Besharov

Tightening the Welfare Noose, The New York Times, January 15, 1997

Douglas J. Besharov

How to Help Welfare Mothers, The New York Times, November 13, 1996

Douglas J. Besharov

Inner City Blues, The Washington Post, October 13, 1996

Douglas J. Besharov

Shaping the Debate on Welfare Reform, The Washington Post, August 11, 1996

Douglas J. Besharov

A Monster of His Own Creation, 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, The Washington Post, July 23, 1995

Douglas J. Besharov

The Welfare Balloon: Squeeze Hard on One Side and the Other Side Will Just Expand, The Washington Post, June 11, 1995

Douglas J. Besharov

Welfare As We Don't Know It, The Washington Post, July 4, 1993

Douglas J. Besharov

The Perverse Federal Incentive for Welfare Cuts, Governing, February 1993

Douglas J. Besharov and Karen Baehler

Cautions for the New Paternalism, The Washington Post, January 5, 1992

Douglas J. Besharov

Working Papers

Leaving Welfare Without Work: 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

Conference Papers

Abstinence Education Grants and Welfare Reform, June 6, 1997