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Author: Roberts, Tracy Elizabeth
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Roberts, Tracy Elizabeth |
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Employment and Marriage: Pathways Off of Welfare? M.A. Thesis, University of Maryland - College Park, 2005. MAI 44/01, p. 192, Feb 2006 Cohort(s): NLSY79 Publisher: ProQuest Dissertations & Theses (PQDT) Keyword(s): Family Studies; Marital Stability; Marriage; Transition, Job to Job; Transition, Welfare to Work; Welfare Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. Does the way women exit welfare affect their probability of returning to welfare? Using data drawn from the 1979-2000 National Longitudinal Surveys of Youth, I examine the effect of marital and employment transitions on recidivism rates. I find that women who combine employment and marriage after exiting welfare, in that order, have significantly lower risks of recidivism than other women. Women who marry but do not enter employment have higher recidivism rates than women who combine employment and marriage, but they are less likely to return to welfare than women who are only employed. The data suggest that simply encouraging marriage or women's employment may not reduce welfare recidivism. The best policy strategy to reduce welfare dependence and encourage healthy marriages may be to strengthen work support programs and improve the circumstances of employment (and opportunities for strong marriages) for low-income men and women. |
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Roberts, Tracy Elizabeth. Employment and Marriage: Pathways Off of Welfare? M.A. Thesis, University of Maryland - College Park, 2005. MAI 44/01, p. 192, Feb 2006. |
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Roberts, Tracy Elizabeth Martin, Steven P. |
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Marital Paths from Welfare to Self-Sufficiency: A Dynamic Analysis of Women's Marriage Timing and Transitions out of and into Welfare Presented: New York, NY, Population Association of America Annual Meetings, March 29-31, 2007. Also: http://paa2007.princeton.edu/abstractViewer.aspx?submissionId=71581 Cohort(s): NLSY79 Publisher: Population Association of America Keyword(s): Family Circumstances, Changes in; Marriage; Transition, Welfare to Work; Welfare Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. Promoting marriage as a path out of welfare dependency has become a policy priority. It is unclear, however, how effective marriage can be at stabilizing poor women's family circumstances. To understand the effect of marriage on welfare transitions, we employ two models. The first model examines whether women exit welfare through marriage. The second model examines whether the timing of marriage affects the probability of return. Do women who marry in subsequent years after welfare exit have lower rates of recidivism than women who marry during a welfare spell? Our preliminary results suggest that women who enter marriage in the years following a welfare exit have lower recidivism rates than women who marry during a welfare spell. However, in the fifteen years following a welfare exit, recidivism rates are high for both groups of women. |
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Roberts, Tracy Elizabeth and Steven P. Martin. "Marital Paths from Welfare to Self-Sufficiency: A Dynamic Analysis of Women's Marriage Timing and Transitions out of and into Welfare." Presented: New York, NY, Population Association of America Annual Meetings, March 29-31, 2007. |
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Roberts, Tracy Elizabeth Martin, Steven P. |
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Welfare Exit, Marriage, and Welfare Recidivism: A Reevaluation of Patterns of the 1980s and 1990s. Population Research and Policy Review 29,2 (April 2010): 105-125. Also: http://www.springerlink.com/content/lw733v3240431l8h/ Cohort(s): NLSY79 Publisher: Kluwer Academic Publishers Keyword(s): Marriage; Transition, Welfare to Work; Welfare; Women Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. We examine the relationship between marriage and welfare recidivism for women leaving a first welfare spell, using the 1979-2000 panels of the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth (NLSY). Previous studies have found that women who marry around the time of welfare exit have lower rates of welfare return than women who stay single. However, more marriages occur before or after welfare exit than occur at the time of welfare exit. We find that marriages that precede or follow welfare exit by more than 12 months are not associated with significantly lower rates of welfare return. We also confirm previous findings that marriages formed within a year of welfare exit are associated with reduced rates of welfare return. However, these reduced rates mostly indicate later welfare returns rather than fewer welfare returns. Overall, our findings indicate a much weaker association between marriage and welfare independence than has been previously reported for this time period. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
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Bibliography Citation
Roberts, Tracy Elizabeth and Steven P. Martin. "Welfare Exit, Marriage, and Welfare Recidivism: A Reevaluation of Patterns of the 1980s and 1990s." Population Research and Policy Review 29,2 (April 2010): 105-125.
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