What is the impact of pre-PRWORA welfare reform policies on cycling?
We utilize the random assignment design of the three evaluation sites to ask whether the program implemented at each site affected the likelihood of cycling. Each site’s program was implemented pre-PRWORA and was designed to evaluate several aspects of change in welfare benefit receipt. While many of these policies were later enacted under PRWORA, they should not be seen as representing final PRWORA implementation. Our analysis is based on program group and control group differences in cycling rates, after controlling for the factors shown to affect cycling in Table 6. The results of the analysis are presented in Table 12. The top panel of the table shows impacts for the full sample, which includes both new recipients to welfare and recipients in the middle of a welfare spell at the time of sample intake, whereas the lower panel shows impacts for new recipients.(38) This panel shows how results would differ when using a sample for which all spell lengths are known, at least since their
