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Title: Participation in the Unemployment Insurance Program and Childhood Achievement
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Heflin, Colleen M. Kukla-Acevedo, Sharon |
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Participation in the Unemployment Insurance Program and Childhood Achievement Presented: Boston MA, Population Association of America Annual Meeting, May 2014 Cohort(s): Children of the NLSY79, NLSY79 Publisher: Population Association of America Keyword(s): Modeling, Fixed Effects; Modeling, Instrumental Variables; Peabody Individual Achievement Test (PIAT- Math); Peabody Individual Achievement Test (PIAT- Reading); Unemployment Insurance Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. Despite evidence linking parental unemployment spells and negative child outcomes, there is very little research that explores how participation in the Unemployment Insurance Program (UI) could buffer these effects. Using the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 79 (NLSY79) and Children of the NLSY79 data, we estimate a series of fixed effects and instrumental variables models to estimate the relationship between UI participation and the Peabody Individual Achievement Test (math and reading comprehension). Once we control for the non-random selection process into UI participation, our results suggest a positive, albeit, tenuous relationship between UI participation and PIAT math scores. None of the models suggests a negative influence of UI participation on child outcomes. |
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Heflin, Colleen M. and Sharon Kukla-Acevedo. "Participation in the Unemployment Insurance Program and Childhood Achievement." Presented: Boston MA, Population Association of America Annual Meeting, May 2014. |