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1.	London, Rebecca A.
1.	The Role of Postsecondary Education in Welfare Recipients' Paths to Self-Sufficiency Journal of Higher Education 77,3 (May/June 2006): 472-496. Also: http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/journal_of_higher_education/v077/77.3london.html Cohort(s): NLSY79 Publisher: Ohio State University Press Keyword(s): College Education; College Graduates; Education; Educational Attainment; Educational Returns; Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF); Welfare The article discusses educational policies that improve economic outcome and research on postsecondary education for welfare recipients in the United States. Changes in the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) program limits postsecondary education options for poor people who are trying to escape poverty, promotes a "work first" program, and continues the bias against those with low socioeconomic status. This study relies on data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth and uses an instrumental variables approach to control bias and improve statistical reliability.
	Bibliography Citation London, Rebecca A. "The Role of Postsecondary Education in Welfare Recipients' Paths to Self-Sufficiency ." Journal of Higher Education 77,3 (May/June 2006): 472-496.

2.	London, Rebecca A.
2.	The Role of Postsecondary Education in Welfare Recipients' Paths to Self-Sufficiency Working Paper, Center for Justice, Tolerance, and Community at the University of California, Santa Cruz. Also: http://www2.ucsc.edu/cjtc/docs/wp_WelfareRecipients_postsecondaryEducation.pdf Cohort(s): NLSY79 Publisher: Center for Justice, Tolerance, and Community at the University of California, Santa Cruz Keyword(s): College Graduates; Education; Educational Attainment; Educational Returns; Poverty; Schooling, Post-secondary; Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF); Welfare Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. Today's welfare system does not encourage postsecondary education, focusing instead on services aimed at immediate employment. The loss of postsecondary education as a route out of poverty for welfare recipients may be detrimental to some women. College graduation is associated with lower rates of return to aid and post-welfare poverty than attendance without graduation or no attendance. However, graduation rates for welfare recipients are well below national graduation rates.
	Bibliography Citation London, Rebecca A. "The Role of Postsecondary Education in Welfare Recipients' Paths to Self-Sufficiency." Working Paper, Center for Justice, Tolerance, and Community at the University of California, Santa Cruz.

3.	London, Rebecca A.
3.	Welfare Recipients' College Attendance and Consequences for Time-Limited Aid Social Science Quarterly 86, Supplement s1 (December 2005):1104-1122. Also: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.0038-4941.2005.00338.x/abstract Cohort(s): NLSY79 Publisher: Blackwell Publishing, Inc. => Wiley Online Keyword(s): College Education; College Graduates; Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF); Welfare Objective. I examine the association between total time on welfare and recipients' college attendance and graduation over a 20-year period. Methods. Using data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth, I model the determinants of college enrollment and graduation among welfare recipients, and the association between the total number of months a recipient receives aid and her college attendance and graduation. Models examine separately the effects associated with longer stays on aid while recipients attend school as well as reduced recidivism associated with college attendance and graduation. Results. Findings indicate that attending college is associated with more months on aid, but graduating largely offsets this increase through reductions in return to aid. Conclusions. Policymakers' concerns that including postsecondary education as a TANF activity would undermine the short-term focus of the program are not fully supported. A greater concern is the low rate of graduation among welfare recipients, who reap the most benefits from college attendance and sacrifice the fewest months on aid. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
	Bibliography Citation London, Rebecca A. "Welfare Recipients' College Attendance and Consequences for Time-Limited Aid." Social Science Quarterly 86, Supplement s1 (December 2005):1104-1122.

4.	London, Rebecca A.
4.	Welfare Recipients' College Attendance and Consequences for Time-Limited Aid Presented: Washington, DC, APPAM Annual Research Conference, 2003 Cohort(s): NLSY79 Publisher: Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management (APPAM) Keyword(s): College Education; College Graduates; Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF); Welfare Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. Welfare recipients' abilities to attend college while receiving aid has been severely curtailed by the TANF program, due in part to concerns about longterm education in a time-limited program. Yet, prior research indicates that college enrollment, and particularly graduation, are strong indicators of positive future outcomes. Findings from the NLSY indicate that during the pre-TANF period, 17 percent of welfare spells had some overlap with college enrollment. Among women who enroll, however, just 36 percent graduate at any point in the 20-year NLSY panel and receipt of financial aid loans is a strong predictor of graduation. Attending college while on aid is associated with up to an additional one and a half years of aid receipt. Graduation may help to ameliorate this, although women who are already enrolled in college when they begin to receive welfare are more likely to graduate than those who start college as welfare recipients.
	Bibliography Citation London, Rebecca A. "Welfare Recipients' College Attendance and Consequences for Time-Limited Aid." Presented: Washington, DC, APPAM Annual Research Conference, 2003.

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