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Title: Correlations Between Mothers' and Daughters' Welfare Experiences
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Gottschalk, Peter |
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Correlations Between Mothers' and Daughters' Welfare Experiences Working Paper, Institute for Research on Poverty, University of Wisconson - Madison, 1989 Cohort(s): NLSY79 Publisher: Institute for Research on Poverty (IRP), University of Wisconsin - Madison Keyword(s): Aid for Families with Dependent Children (AFDC); Intergenerational Patterns/Transmission; Mothers and Daughters; Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID); Poverty; Research Methodology; Welfare Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. This report describes the previous work on intergenerational correlation of welfare experiences of mothers and daughters and presents new evidence based on the NLSY. Previous studies artificially limited the time period over which mothers and daughters were observed by focusing on the mothers' and daughters' experience during limited windows during the beginning and end of the survey. The descriptive duration tables and multivariate equations presented in this report overcome this drawback by using all the information in the survey. The results show a strong degree of correlation between mothers' and daughters' welfare experiences. The daughters of mothers who received assistance were more likely to have a child at every given age and were much more likely to start an AFDC spell after the birth of their first child. The facts presented are consistent with two competing theories - daughters may have experiences similar to their mothers' because they face similar constraints or because tastes or information are passed from one generation to the next. Since these two theories have very different policy implications, this study is only an intermediate step in the study of intergenerational welfare dependency. |
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Bibliography Citation
Gottschalk, Peter. "Correlations Between Mothers' and Daughters' Welfare Experiences." Working Paper, Institute for Research on Poverty, University of Wisconson - Madison, 1989. |