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Title: The Intergenerational Transmission of Welfare Participation: Facts and Possible Causes
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Gottschalk, Peter |
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The Intergenerational Transmission of Welfare Participation: Facts and Possible Causes Journal of Policy Analysis and Management 11,2 (Spring 1992): 254-272. Also: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.2307/3325367/abstract Cohort(s): NLSY79 Publisher: Wiley Online Keyword(s): Aid for Families with Dependent Children (AFDC); Ethnic Differences; Ethnic Groups; Event History; Family Income; Hispanics; Income Level; Intergenerational Patterns/Transmission; Mothers and Daughters; Wage Dynamics; Welfare Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. Two methodological issues in measuring intergenerational correlations in welfare participation are explored. One controls for differences in eligibility as well as participation, the other uses event history analysis on mothers' and daughters' welfare histories. The National Longitudinal Survey of Youth is used to measure the intergenerational correlation among whites, blacks, & Hispanics. It is concluded that: (1) parental participation in Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC) is correlated with daughters' AFDC participation for whites & Hispanics; (2) parents' participation does not seem to be capturing solely the effects of low income, which leads to a correlation in mothers' and daughters' eligibility; and (3) the loss of income if the parent does not participate raises the probability that the daughter will receive assistance. The effect of this income loss offsets nearly half of the participation effect for whites. |
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Gottschalk, Peter. "The Intergenerational Transmission of Welfare Participation: Facts and Possible Causes ." Journal of Policy Analysis and Management 11,2 (Spring 1992): 254-272.
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