Income and Family Support | MDRC

We study programs that aim to improve the economic outcomes of people who are involved in public systems, including food and cash assistance, child support, and child welfare. We also study strategies to support parents and build healthier family relationships.

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Making Work Pay

How to Design and Implement Financial Work Supports

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Final Report on the Self-Sufficiency Project for Long-Term Welfare Recipients

Report

Making Welfare Work and Work Pay

Implementation and 18-Month Impacts of the Minnesota Family Investment Program

Report

Making Random Assignment Happen

Evidence from the UK Employment Retention and Advancement (ERA) Demonstration

Brief

Making Child Care Choices

How Welfare and Work Policies Influence Parents' Decisions

Working Paper

Long-Term Effects of New Hope on Children’s Academic Achievement and Achievement Motivation

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Lives of Promise, Lives of Pain

Young Mothers After New Chance

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Leavers, Stayers, and Cyclers

An Analysis of the Welfare Caseload

Report

Learning Together

How Families Responded to Education Incentives in New York City’s Conditional Cash Transfer Program

Report

Learnfare

How to Implement a Mandatory Stay-in-School Program for Teenage Parents on Welfare

Report

LEAP: Three-Year Impacts on Ohio’s Welfare Initiative

Report

LEAP

Final Report on Ohio’s Welfare Initiative to Improve School Attendance Among Teenage Parents

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Early Implementation of Jobs First

Connecticut's Welfare's Reform Initiative

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Jobs First

Final Report on Connecticut's Welfare Reform Initiative

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Implementation and Early Impacts of Jobs First, Connecticut's Welfare Reform Initiative