Publication Type: Conference Paper/Unpublished Manuscript
Abstract: The 1996 welfare reform intends to move welfare recipients to work by imposing work requirements on recipients. To evaluate the effectiveness of the welfare reform, many researchers focus their study on welfare recipients’ employability. Kim (2000) examines the factors affecting the employment status of welfare recipients by using the March 1998 Annual Demographic Supplement File of CPS (Current Population Survey).
The authors in this paper extend Kim’s research by using the March 2002 CPS file to explore the factors associated with recent welfare recipients’ employment probability. A total of 1,353 welfare recipients were identified. The logistic regression revealed that recent welfare recipients with a high school degree have greater odds of finding a job compared to those without a high school degree. This finding differs from Kim’s study where there is no significant difference in the possibility of employment between recipients with and without a high school degree. The authors explain that this different finding is associated with the labor market circumstances of a specific period. That is, the poor labor market in 2002 provides an unfavorable environment so that compared to recipients with a high school degree, recipients without a high school degree show a significant disadvantage in finding a job.

Publication Type: Conference Paper/Unpublished Manuscript
Review Method: Peer Reviewed
Abstract: When do policy-makers take human rights into account in foreign policy formation? This chapter examines the relative role of human rights and economic self-interest in shaping aid policy in an era of globalization. I develop an argument that human rights abuses in the recipient state will prompt aid reduction or cessation by donors only when the recipient is of little economic value to the donor, and when the government of the donor state is politically weak. I then assess the hypotheses I have derived through quantitative and qualitative analyses of British foreign aid policy during the 1980s and 1990s. In doing so, I move beyond extant analyses of US foreign aid policy and expand the purview of my own past research into these tradeoffs. I trace overall patterns in the relationships between aid, trade, and domestic politics, as well as changes occurring as the state-centered, strategically defined world of the Cold War era dissolved into the interconnected politico-economic world of the mid-to-late 1990s.

Publication Type: Conference Paper/Unpublished Manuscript
Review Method: Peer Reviewed
Abstract: We analyze the impact of donor fragmentation on the quality of government bureaucracy in aid-recipient nations. A formal model of a donor’s decision to hire government administrators to manage donor-funded projects predicts that the number of administrators hired declines as the donor’s share of other projects in the country increases, and as the donor’s concern for the success of other donors’ projects increases. These hypotheses are supported by cross-country empirical tests, using an index of bureaucratic quality available for aid-recipient nations over the 1982-2001 period.

Publication Type: Proceeding

Publication Type: Conference Paper/Unpublished Manuscript
Abstract: Abstract: This paper explores the puzzle of foreign aid effectiveness in promoting recipient economic growth. It argues that Western bilateral aid can be effective in this regard, but only when the strategic benefits associated with providing aid are small for donor governments. When the strategic benefits are large, donor governments cannot credibly push recipient governments to engage in politically-costly, but growth-enhancing, economic reform. This argument is supported by evidence showing that Western bilateral aid has become more effective in the post-1986 period when the strategic benefits of providing aid were small for Western governments as compared to the pre-1987 Cold War period. The argument is also supported by evidence showing that Western bilateral aid has become less temporally sticky after 1986, consistent with a new willingness on the part of Western donors to curtail their aid when recipient governments failed to engage in economic reform.