Reforming Policy for Single-Parent Families to Reduce Child Poverty

Maria Cancian; Daniel R. Meyer

doi:10.7758/RSF.2018.4.2.05

Article Information

vol. 4 no. 2 91-112

DOI

https://doi.org/10.7758/RSF.2018.4.2.05

Published By

RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences

Print ISSN

2377-8253

Online ISSN

2377-8261

History

Published online February 1, 2018.

© 2018 Russell Sage Foundation. Cancian, Maria, and Daniel R. Meyer. 2018. “Reforming Policy for Single-Parent Families to Reduce Child Poverty.” RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences 4(2): 91–112. DOI: 10.7758/RSF.2018.4.2.05. Paper presented at the Russell Sage Foundation Conference “Anti-poverty Policy Initiatives for the United States” and at the related session at the 2016 Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management Research Conference. We thank Chris Wimer and Sophie Collyer for the cost and poverty estimates, Maria Serakos and Veronique Yeo for research assistance, and the reviewers, the editors, and conference participants, especially Lawrence Berger, Robert Doar, Irwin Garfinkel, and Elaine Sorensen, for their helpful comments. Any opinions expressed here are our own. Direct correspondence to: Maria Cancian at maria.cancian@wisc.edu, 3436 Social Sciences Building, 1180 Observatory Dr., Madison, WI 53706. Open Access Policy: RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences is an open access journal. This article is published under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License.

Author Information

Maria Cancian^a and
Daniel R. Meyer^b

^aProfessor of public affairs and social work and affiliate of the Institute for Research on Poverty at the University of Wisconsin–Madison
^bProfessor of social work and affiliate of the Institute for Research on Poverty at the University of Wisconsin–Madison