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O'Neill, June E. Bassi, Laurie Wolf, Douglas |
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The Duration of Welfare Spells Review of Economics and Statistics 69,2 (May 1987): 241-248. Also: http://www.jstor.org/stable/1927231 Cohort(s): Young Women Publisher: Harvard University Press Keyword(s): Welfare; Women Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. Probability distributions for the duration of welfare spells are estimated utilizing data from the NLS of Young Women. The principle guiding the work is that a recipient won't exit from welfare if the expected utility on welfare exceeds the expected utility off welfare. Our analysis indicates that while the majority of welfare spells are of short duration, a non-trivial minority of spells are quite long. Those recipients with long spells are found to differ in predictable ways from those experiencing brief spells. This suggests that strategies to move women off welfare are necessary in many cases, and should be targeted on those most likely to be long-term recipients. |
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O'Neill, June E., Laurie Bassi and Douglas Wolf. "The Duration of Welfare Spells." Review of Economics and Statistics 69,2 (May 1987): 241-248.
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O'Neill, June E. Wolf, Douglas Bassi, Laurie Hannan, Michael |
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An Analysis of Time on Welfare Report, Department of Health and Human Services, Washington, DC: The Urban Institute, 1984 Cohort(s): Young Women Publisher: Urban Institute Keyword(s): Aid for Families with Dependent Children (AFDC); Attitudes; Longitudinal Data Sets; Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID); Welfare This project identified the factors that lead to long-term welfare dependency and determined the effect of long- term dependency on a person's attitudes and life outlook. The study consisted of two major tasks. The first task was an empirical analysis of welfare dependency. This included using the Panel Study of Income Dynamics and the National Longitudinal Survey to estimate the duration of AFDC spells, analyze the correlates of welfare dependency, and analyze the effect of welfare duration on psychological traits. The second task evaluated the potential usefulness of a new survey. The second report discusses a possible survey design and implementation plan, and presents a research design for analyzing new data. [NTIS PB84-225713] |
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Bibliography Citation
O'Neill, June E., Douglas Wolf, Laurie Bassi and Michael Hannan. "An Analysis of Time on Welfare." Report, Department of Health and Human Services, Washington, DC: The Urban Institute, 1984. |