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Our bimonthly journal of research

The ANNALS of the AAPSS addresses society’s most important problems and concerns with high-quality research.

First published in 1890, The ANNALS took its current form in 1914: each of our bimonthly volumes takes up a particular social challenge or phenomenon, mustering research and evidence to illuminate it in ways that advance science and public policy.

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Evaluating the Effects of the 2021 Expansion of the Child Tax Credit

Volume 710, November 2023

Special Editors: Megan Curran, Hilary Hoynes, and Zachary Parolin

This volume details the expansion of the Child Tax Credit (CTC) that occurred with the passing of the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021. This historic policy change created a near-universal cash benefit for American children regardless of parents’ employment status or earnings—a departure from the income conditions of previous U.S. welfare policies.

Although evidence has linked this expansion to the historic low in child poverty recorded in 2021, the temporary expansion was allowed to expire in 2022, reverting the CTC to its pre-pandemic form. This volume evaluates the 2021 CTC expansion’s effects on social, economic, and health outcomes; analyzes the advantages and disadvantages of its implementation; and suggests improvements for a potentially permanent version.

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Single-Parent Families and Public Policy: Evidence from High-Income Countries

Volume 702, July 2022

Special Editors: Janet C. Gornick, Laurie C. Maldonado, and Amanda Sheely

For the last century, single-parent families in the U.S. have captured the attention of policymakers, political actors, and social reformers. Interventions like the mothers’ pensions of the Progressive Era eventually gave way to policies that linked single parents’ economic disadvantage to individual characteristics and behavior, rather than to structural causes. Increasing expectations on single mothers to maintain paid employment diminished their status as deserving of publicly provided supports, even as it remained understood that the earnings of a single breadwinner—particularly a woman—are often not sufficient to secure a family’s economic well-being.

Continued child poverty, made worse by the COVID-19 pandemic, has raised a multitude of concerns over the effectiveness of the U.S.’s policy emphasis on individual factors. In response, this volume unites thirty diverse researchers, from several countries, to assess socioeconomic outcomes in single-parent families and, in most cases, to link those outcomes to national-level policies and institutions.

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