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Turning Welfare into a Work Support
Six-Year Impacts on Parents and Children from the Minnesota Family Investment Program
2005. Lisa A. Gennetian, Cynthia Miller, and Jared Smith.
Past MDRC research has shown that MFIP’s most consistent and positive results were for single-parent long-term recipients; the program increased employment, income, and children’s school performance by using welfare payments to supplement the low earnings of welfare recipients who took jobs. While the effects on most parents’ earnings and income faded after six years, young children of single-parent long-term recipients were still performing better in school than their counterparts in a control group. For the most disadvantaged parents, MFIP seems to have created a lasting "leg up" in the labor market, increasing their earnings and income through the sixth year and having large positive effects on their children.
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All Minnesota Family Investment Program Publications
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Turning Welfare into a Work Support
Six-Year Impacts on Parents and Children from the Minnesota Family Investment Program
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2005. Lisa A. Gennetian, Cynthia Miller, and Jared Smith.
While positive effects on most parents’ earnings and income faded after six years, young children in some of the most disadvantaged families were still performing better in school than their counterparts in a control group. And, for the most disadvantaged parents, MFIP seems to have created a lasting “leg up” in the labor market.
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The Long-Term Effects of the Minnesota Family Investment Program on Marriage and Divorce Among Two-Parent Families
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2003. Lisa A. Gennetian.
Building on findings that the Minnesota Family Investment Program (MFIP) resulted in higher rates of marital stability among two-parent recipient families who participated in this initiative that provided financial incentives to welfare recipients who worked, this report documents MFIP’s long-term effects on marriage and divorce among participants in the program’s sample of nearly 2,500 two-parent families who were married or cohabiting at study entry.
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Reforming Welfare and Rewarding Work
A Summary of the Final Report on the Minnesota Family Investment Program
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2000. Virginia Knox, Cynthia Miller, Lisa A. Gennetian.
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Reforming Welfare and Rewarding Work
Final Report on the Minnesota Family Investment Program
Volume 1 Effects on Adults
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2000. Cynthia Miller, Virginia Knox, Lisa A. Gennetian, Martey Dodoo, Jo Anna Hunter, Cindy Redcross.
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Final Report on the Implementation and Impacts of the Minnesota Family Investment Program in Ramsey County
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2000. Patricia Auspos, Cynthia Miller, Jo Anna Hunter.
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Reforming Welfare and Rewarding Work
Final Report on the Minnesota Family Investment Program Volume 2 Effects on Children
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2000. Lisa Gennetian, Cynthia Miller.
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Explaining the Minnesota Family Investment Program's Impacts by Housing Status
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1998. Cynthia Miller.
An evaluation of the Minnesota Family Investment Program (MFIP), the state’s welfare waiver program, found that the program produced substantially larger increases in employment and earnings among welfare recipients living in public or subsidized housing than among recipients in private housing. This paper examines several possible reasons that may account for these findings, including differences in characteristics between the two groups of recipients, differences in their proximity to jobs, differences in residential stability, which might aid in the transition to work, and interactions between MFIP's work incentives and the public/subsidized housing rent rules. The evidence, although indirect, suggests that interactions between MFIP rules and the rent rules in public housing helped to produce larger employment impacts for residents in public or subsidized housing.
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Making Welfare Work and Work Pay
Implementation and 18-Month Impacts of the Minnesota Family Investment Program
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1997. Cynthia Miller, Virginia Knox, Patricia Auspos, Jo Anna Hunter-Manns, Alan Orenstein.
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An Early Report on Minnesota's Approach to Welfare Reform
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1995. Virginia Knox, Amy Brown, Winston Lin.
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