Previous article FreeContributorsPDFPDF PLUSFull Text Add to favoritesDownload CitationTrack CitationsPermissionsReprints Share onFacebookTwitterLinked InRedditEmailQR Code SectionsMoreDaniel Chandler, PhD, conducted this research as a consultant with the California Institute for Mental Health in Sacramento. He worked as a mental health policy analyst for the California Legislature and for the Sacramento Division of Mental Health before becoming an independent policy-research and evaluation practitioner. Other research on welfare reform and mental health is available at http://www.cimh.org/calworks.Irwin Garfinkel is the Mitchell I. Ginsberg Professor of Contemporary Urban Problems at the Columbia University School of Social Work, cofounding director of the Columbia University Population Research Center, and the coprincipal investigator of the Fragile Families Study. He has authored over 180 scientific articles and 12 books on poverty, income transfer policy, program evaluation, single-parent families, and child support. His most recent book is Wealth and Welfare States: Is America a Laggard or Leader? (with Lee Rainwater and Timothy M. Smeeding, Oxford University Press, 2010).Emily A. Greenfield is an assistant professor of social work at Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey. She also is an affiliate of the Rutgers Institute for Health, Health Care Policy, and Aging Research. Her research addresses how social relationships influence individuals’ mental and physical health across the life course. She can be contacted at [email protected].Laura S. Hussey is assistant professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County. Her publications and research in progress concern the role of policy issues, especially cultural and social welfare issues, in political behavior and individuals’ lives.Nathan Hutto is a PhD candidate at Columbia University School of Social Work and a fellow at the Columbia University Population Research Center. His research interests include child and family policy and the socioeconomic determinants of maternal and child health. His dissertation examines the effect of proximity to homicides on birth outcomes.Neeraj Kaushal is an associate professor of social work at Columbia University School of Social Work and a research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research. Kaushal has written extensively on the impact of public policies on low-income families, with special emphasis on immigrants.Lenna Nepomnyaschy is an assistant professor at Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey, School of Social Work. Her research is broadly focused on how poverty and inequality affect child and family health and well-being. One line of work has examined the impact of social policies, particularly those related to fathers and child support on children and families, while another examines the determinants of child health and well-being, with a specific emphasis on disparities by socioeconomic status and race and ethnicity.Jane Waldfogel is a professor of social work and public affairs at Columbia University School of Social Work and a visiting professor at the Centre for Analysis of Social Exclusion at the London School of Economics. Waldfogel has written extensively on the impact of public policies on child and family well-being. Her most recent book is Britain’s War on Poverty (Russell Sage, 2010). Previous article DetailsFiguresReferencesCited by Social Service Review Volume 85, Number 1March 2011 Article DOIhttps://doi.org/10.1086/659226 Views: 60Total views on this site © 2011 by The University of Chicago. All rights reserved.PDF download Crossref reports no articles citing this article.
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