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Author: Ficano, Carlena K. Cochi
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Aid to Families With Dependent Children (AFDC) and Mandatory Work/Training: Identifying the Fertility and Exit Effects Presented: Washington, DC, Population Association of America Meetings, March 1997 Cohort(s): NLSY79 Publisher: Population Association of America Keyword(s): Aid for Families with Dependent Children (AFDC); Fertility; Maternal Employment; Modeling, Hazard/Event History/Survival/Duration; Quits; State Welfare; Training, Occupational; Welfare Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. This paper examines the fertility and exit responses of welfare recipients to the Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC) work training initiatives in place between 1979 and 1992. Assuming that mandatory work/training represents a net increase in the cost of welfare receipt, conventional search theory predicts a behavioral response once a woman's youngest child reaches the age at which work/training program participation becomes mandatory. Using the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth (NLSY) and state welfare policy data, I estimate the probability of two potential responses, birth and welfare exit, as a function of the age of a recipient's youngest child. The empirical analysis employs a competing risk hazard model in which I control separately for 1) variation in the age of the youngest child exemption, and 2) recipiency status. Estimation results provide theoretically consistent evidence of a birth response to mandated work/training and a weak exit response which runs counter to theoretical predictions. |
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Ficano, Carlena K. Cochi. "Aid to Families With Dependent Children (AFDC) and Mandatory Work/Training: Identifying the Fertility and Exit Effects." Presented: Washington, DC, Population Association of America Meetings, March 1997. |