Self-Sufficiency Project (SSP) – How an Earnings Supplement can Affect the Marital Behaviour of Welfare Recipients: Evidence from the Self-Sufficiency Project
This paper uses data from the experimental evaluation of SSP to examine the effect on marriage of an alternative to the mainstream cash welfare system, an alternative that is contingent on work and removes the usual welfare marriage disincentive on marital behaviour among single-parent welfare recipients.
Project Details
Published: May 2001
Capability: Experimentation
Policy Area: Income Security - Welfare and Employment
Population: Low-income Populations - Low-skilled Workers - Social Assistance Recipients - Women - Communities and Families - EI Recipients
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