@article{Lerman:289500,
      recid = {289500},
      author = {Lerman, Robert I. and McKernan, Signe-Mary and Pindus,  Nancy},
      title = {Welfare Reforms and Employment of Single Mothers: Are  Rural Areas Keeping Pace?},
      journal = {Rural America/ Rural Development Perspectives},
      address = {2001-09},
      number = {2221-2019-2478},
      year = {2001},
      abstract = {Changes in social policies in the mid-1990s increased the  penalties for not working and raised the rewards for  working. These policies played a major role in stimulating  employment among single mothers and the gains were  approximately as high in nonmetro areas as in metro areas},
      url = {http://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/289500},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.22004/ag.econ.289500},
}