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  Virginia Knox
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    Welfare Reform, Work, and Child Care
The Role of Informal Care in the Lives of Low-Income Women and Children
Policy Brief
    2003. Virginia W. Knox, Andrew S. London, Ellen K. Scott with Susan Blank.

Drawing on ethnographic interviews, this policy brief describes the patchwork child care arrangements made by low-income parents and discusses implications for policies that would promote the dual objectives of child well-being and parental employment.
 
    Staying Single
The Effects of Welfare Reform Policies on Marriage and Cohabitation
Working Paper
    2003. Lisa A. Gennetian and Virginia Knox.

 
    How Welfare and Work Policies for Parents Affect Adolescents
A Synthesis of Research
    2002. Lisa A. Gennetian, Greg J. Duncan, Virginia W. Knox, Wanda G. Vargas, Elizabeth Clark-Kauffman, Andrew S. London.

The latest research synthesis from the Next Generation project takes a closer look at troubling findings regarding the effects of welfare and work programs on the teenaged children of program enrollees.
 
    Welfare Policies Matter for Children and Youth
Lessons for TANF Reauthorization
Policy Brief
    2002. Pamela Morris, Virginia Knox, Lisa A. Gennetian.

 
    The Challenge of Helping Low-Income Fathers Support Their Children
Final Lessons from Parents’ Fair Share
    2001. Cynthia Miller, Virginia Knox.

 
    Parenting and Providing
The Impact of Parents' Fair Share on Paternal Involvement
    2000. Virginia Knox, Cindy Redcross.

 
    Reforming Welfare and Rewarding Work
A Summary of the Final Report on the Minnesota Family Investment Program
    2000. Virginia Knox, Cynthia Miller, Lisa A. Gennetian.

 
    Building Opportunities, Enforcing Obligations
Implementation and Interim Impacts of Parents' Fair Share
    1998. Fred Doolittle, Virginia Knox, Cynthia Miller, Sharon Rowser.

 
    Making Welfare Work and Work Pay
Implementation and 18-Month Impacts of the Minnesota Family Investment Program
    1997. Cynthia Miller, Virginia Knox, Patricia Auspos, Jo Anna Hunter-Manns, Alan Orenstein.

 
    MFIP
An Early Report on Minnesota's Approach to Welfare Reform
    1995. Virginia Knox, Amy Brown, Winston Lin.

 
    West Virginia
Final Report on the Community Work Experience Demonstrations
    1986. Daniel Friendlander, Marjorie Erickson, Gayle Hamilton, Virginia Knox.

 
    Documentation of the Data Sources and Analytical Methods Used in the Benefit-Cost Analysis of the EPP/EWEP Program in San Diego
    1985. David Long, Virginia Knox.

 
 



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