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Title: A Migration Study of Mother's Work, Welfare Participation, and Child Development
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Liu, Haiyong |
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A Migration Study of Mother's Work, Welfare Participation, and Child Development Working Paper, Department of Economics, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, November 2002 Cohort(s): Children of the NLSY79 Publisher: Department of Economics, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Keyword(s): Aid for Families with Dependent Children (AFDC); Armed Forces Qualifications Test (AFQT); Endogeneity; Maternal Employment; Peabody Individual Achievement Test (PIAT- Math); School Characteristics/Rating/Safety; Simultaneity; Welfare Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. This paper investigates how women's migration and labor supply behaviors respond to changes in Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC) policies and labor market conditions. It also traces out how these responses influence educational inputs and child outcomes. The research approach incorporates a new empirical framework for characterizing the simultaneity and endogeneity of decision making about migration, welfare program participation, and labor supply, recognizing that all of the decisions could impact their children's acheivement outcomes. No other paper had linked migration and work decisions to welfare participation and the impacts of welfare policies on children. Preliminary results show that poor and low-educated single women with children do change their residential locations in response to changes in welfare policies and labor market conditions. The magnitude of this response in the form of migration, however, is modest. In addition, such policy changes often have large and important impacts on particular at-risk groups. For example, increases in a state's welfare benefits can significantly increase the fraction of in-migrants who newly decide to enter welfare. Similarly, the impacts on the children of those women who would move out of state in the presence of work requirements are large. On average, using New York as an example, their children's achievment test scores would fall by 3.5 percentile points because of their mothers' new relocation decisions. |
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Liu, Haiyong. "A Migration Study of Mother's Work, Welfare Participation, and Child Development." Working Paper, Department of Economics, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, November 2002. |