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1.	Norwood, Janet L.
1.	Review of Data Sets Available for Research on Welfare Dependency Statement to the Subcommittee on Social Security and Family Policy, Senate Finance Committee, United States Senate, March 1991 Cohort(s): NLS General Publisher: U.S. Senate Committee on Finance Keyword(s): Aid for Families with Dependent Children (AFDC); Consumer Expenditure Survey (CEX); Current Population Survey (CPS) / CPS-Fertility Supplement; Longitudinal Data Sets; Longitudinal Surveys; NLS Description; Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID); Poverty; Welfare Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. This statement, prepared for the Senate's Subcommittee on Social Security and Family Policy, reviews the various data sources available to assist in the examination of poverty persistence and its effect over time on our nation's children. Highlighted were results from studies based on such longitudinal data sources as the Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID) and the National Longitudinal Surveys of Labor Market Experience (NLS) which examined welfare spells, patterns of welfare recipiency among adolescent mothers and intergenerational correlates of welfare participation. Finally, information on the working poor derived from the Current Population Surveys and expenditure patterns of single parent households and households receiving Supplemental Security Income drawn from the Consumer Expenditure Surveys is summarized.
	Bibliography Citation Norwood, Janet L. "Review of Data Sets Available for Research on Welfare Dependency." Statement to the Subcommittee on Social Security and Family Policy, Senate Finance Committee, United States Senate, March 1991.

2.	Olsen, Randall J.
2.	Measuring Economic Dependency for Children: Persistence of Poverty Across Generations Statement to the Subcommittee on Social Security and Family Policy, Senate Finance Committee, United States Senate, March 1991 Cohort(s): Children of the NLSY79, NLSY79 Publisher: U.S. Senate Committee on Finance Keyword(s): Absenteeism; Child Development; Children; Gender Differences; General Assessment; Geographical Variation; Household Structure; Intergenerational Patterns/Transmission; Parental Influences; Peabody Individual Achievement Test (PIAT- Math); Peabody Individual Achievement Test (PIAT- Reading); Poverty; Racial Differences; Welfare Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. In his testimony before the Senate Finance Committee's Subcommittee on Social Security and Family Policy, Professor Olsen addresses the need for relevant indicators to assist policy makers in identifying those factors related to continued economic dependency or poverty across generations. He discusses the availability of multigenerational data from the National Longitudinal Surveys of Youth (NLSY). These permit not only analysis of poverty over time for this representative group of 12,000 young American men and women but assist in pinpointing characteristics of the youths' family background, high school environment, and community likely to affect the probability that these young Americans and their children will be able to move out of poverty. Professor Olsen identifies the following four factors as related to reductions in poverty persistence measured at two points in time (1979 and 1988): (1) greater educational attainment of a young person's mother; (2) presence of two parents in the household; (3) attendance at high schools which reported, for the young men studied, lower absenteeism rates and, for young women, fewer numbers of economically disadvantaged students; and (4) residence in a community with low rates of unemployment, crime and welfare recipiency. The impact of persisting poverty on child development is also examined using detailed information on the cognitive, socioemotional, and behavioral development of children born to women in the NLSY sample. In his concluding remarks, Professor Olsen stresses the need for continued funding for such national data collection efforts as the NLSY which provide a wealth of information for policy analysis.
	Bibliography Citation Olsen, Randall J. "Measuring Economic Dependency for Children: Persistence of Poverty Across Generations." Statement to the Subcommittee on Social Security and Family Policy, Senate Finance Committee, United States Senate, March 1991.

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