1. From the guest editor

   • Martha S. Hill

   EditorialNotes Pages: 173 - 180

2. Poverty, public assistance, and children in intact and single-mother families

   • Lingxin Hao

   OriginalPaper Pages: 181 - 205

3. Welfare and adolescent sex: The effects of family history, benefit levels, and community context

   • Kristin A. Moore
   • Donna Ruane Morrison
   • Dana A. Glei

   OriginalPaper Pages: 207 - 237

4. Family and neighborhood welfare dependency and sons' labor supply

   • Mary Corcoran
   • Terry Adams

   OriginalPaper Pages: 239 - 264

5. Dynamics of the intergenerational transmission of welfare receipt in the United States

   • John V. Pepper

   OriginalPaper Pages: 265 - 279

6. Intergenerational and program-induced effects of welfare dependency: Evidence from the national longitudinal survey of youth

   • Anna M. Santiago

   OriginalPaper Pages: 281 - 306