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Author: Rector, Robert
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Rector, Robert |
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Reforming Food Stamps to Promote Work and Reduce Poverty and Dependence Washington, DC, Testimony on Welfare and Welfare Spending and Poverty and Inequality, The Heritage Foundation, June 27, 2001. Also: http://www.heritage.org/Research/Welfare/Test062701.cfm Cohort(s): NLSY79 Publisher: The Heritage Foundation Keyword(s): Employment; Food Stamps (see Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program); Welfare; Work Ethic Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. This testimony argues against the validity of status quo Food Stamp programs. Rector uses NLSY79 data to show that such programs promote long-term dependence and negatively impact work ethic. Specifically, he finds that only 1.4 percent of Food Stamp spending went to households which received aid for 6 months or less, less than 10 percent of Food Stamp expenditures went to individuals who received aid for two years or less, and over 90 percent of Food Stamp aid went to households that received aid for more than two years. |
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Rector, Robert. "Reforming Food Stamps to Promote Work and Reduce Poverty and Dependence." Washington, DC, Testimony on Welfare and Welfare Spending and Poverty and Inequality, The Heritage Foundation, June 27, 2001. |
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The Effects of Welfare Reform Washington, DC, Testimony: The Heritage Foundation, March 15, 2001. Also: http://www.heritage.org/Research/Welfare/Test031501b.cfm Cohort(s): NLSY79 Publisher: The Heritage Foundation Keyword(s): Bias Decomposition; Child Development; Children, Poverty; Marital Status; Motherhood; Poverty; Welfare Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. Summary The intention of Welfare programs is to benefit low income Americans, especially children. Yet the evidence indicates that children and parents are actively harmed rather than helped by welfare. Nearly all Welfare aid for children goes to single parent households. But current research indicates that both Welfare dependence and single parenthood have significant deleterious effects on children's development, impeding their ability to become successful members of mainstream society. |
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Rector, Robert. "The Effects of Welfare Reform." Washington, DC, Testimony: The Heritage Foundation, March 15, 2001. |
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Why Congress Must Reform Welfare Backgrounder #1063 Report, The Heritage Foundation, December 4, 1995. Also: http://www.heritage.org/Research/Welfare/BG1063.cfm Cohort(s): NLSY79 Publisher: The Heritage Foundation Keyword(s): Childbearing, Premarital/Nonmarital; Crime; Parents, Single; Public Housing; Welfare Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. This paper argues against the status quo welfare system and advocates its reform. A Heritage Foundation analysis of NLSY79 data is cited as proof of welfare's detrimental impact on youth. Specifically, the Heritage Foundation study states that boys raised in single-parent households receiving public housing aid are five times more likely to engage in criminal activity and young girls raised in single-parent homes in public housing are five times more likely to bear children out of wedlock. |
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Rector, Robert. "Why Congress Must Reform Welfare." Backgrounder #1063 Report, The Heritage Foundation, December 4, 1995. |
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Rector, Robert Fagan, Patrick F. |
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How Welfare Harms Kids Backgrounder #1084 Report, The Heritage Foundation, June 5, 1996. Also: http://www.heritage.org/Research/Welfare/BG1084.cfm Cohort(s): NLSY79 Publisher: The Heritage Foundation Keyword(s): Aid for Families with Dependent Children (AFDC); Children; Crime; Marriage; Parents, Single; Sexual Activity; Welfare Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. Rector and Fagan argue that welfare policies, which were ostensibly implemented to help children, actually harm children more than poverty itself, resulting in increased welfare dependence and out of wedlock births. Studies of NLSY79 data are cited to evidence claims that black men born to single parent families are twice as likely to engage in criminal activity and that children born out of wedlock are twice as likely to be sexual active teenagers than "legitimate" children born to married couples. |
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Rector, Robert and Patrick F. Fagan. "How Welfare Harms Kids." Backgrounder #1084 Report, The Heritage Foundation, June 5, 1996. |
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Rector, Robert Johnson, Kirk A. |
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Effects of Marriage and Maternal Education in Reducing Child Poverty Center for Data Analysis Report #02-05, Heritage Foundation, August 2002. Also: http://www.heritage.org/Research/Family/cda02-05.cfm Cohort(s): NLSY79 Publisher: The Heritage Foundation Keyword(s): Children; Children, Poverty; Marital Status; Marriage; Mothers, Education; Mothers, Income; Poverty Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. Utilizing National Longitudinal Survey data, Rector and Johnson's study finds that marital status has a stronger impact on child poverty than maternal education. One of the four principal goals of the welfare reform of 1996 was to increase married two-parent families. The current welfare reform proposals advanced by President George W. Bush and recently enacted by the House of Representatives (H.R. 4737) include specific policies aimed at encouraging healthy marriages. Supporters of this approach contend that an increase in healthy marriages will improve child well-being and reduce child poverty. Opponents argue that there is little or no link between increasing marriage and reducing poverty. They argue that the government should ignore the issue of marriage and should focus instead on increasing maternal education as the primary means of combating child poverty. Given this policy context, this Heritage Foundation Center for Data Analysis Report examines two questions: Is marriage effective in reducing child poverty? What is the comparative effect of marriage and maternal education in combating child poverty? Using data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth (NLSY), the CDA analysis produced the following findings:
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Rector, Robert and Kirk A. Johnson. "Effects of Marriage and Maternal Education in Reducing Child Poverty." Center for Data Analysis Report #02-05, Heritage Foundation, August 2002. |
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Rector, Robert Johnson, Kirk A. Fagan, Patrick F. |
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Understanding Differences in Black and White Child Poverty Rates Report #CDA01-04. Washington DC: The Heritage Foundation, May 2001. Also: http://www.heritage.org/library/cda/cda01-04.html Cohort(s): NLSY79 Publisher: The Heritage Foundation Keyword(s): Age at First Birth; Aid for Families with Dependent Children (AFDC); Poverty; Regions; Welfare Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. EXCERPT FROM INTRODUCTION: High rates of child poverty in the United States are a continuing concern. The fact that poverty is considerably more common among black children than it is among white children has intensified this concern. In 1999, according to the U.S. Bureau of the Census, 33.1 percent of black children lived in poverty compared with 13.5 percent of white children.1 This CDA Report attempts to identify the primary causes of child poverty in the United States, using the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth, a representative sample of Americans produced by the U.S. Department of Labor.2 We also examine the differences in black and white child poverty and seek to uncover the causes of those differences. |
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Rector, Robert, Kirk A. Johnson and Patrick F. Fagan. Understanding Differences in Black and White Child Poverty Rates. Report #CDA01-04. Washington DC: The Heritage Foundation, May 2001.. |
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Rector, Robert Youssef, Sarah E. |
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Determinants of Welfare Caseload Decline Report #99-04, Center for Data Analysis. Washington, DC: The Heritage Foundation, May 11, 1999. Also: http://thf_media.s3.amazonaws.com/1999/pdf/cda99-04.pdf Cohort(s): Children of the NLSY79, NLSY79 Publisher: The Heritage Foundation Keyword(s): Aid for Families with Dependent Children (AFDC); Economic Changes/Recession; Employment; I.Q.; Parents, Single; Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF); Welfare Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. This paper argues that welfare reform, not strong economic growth, has produced declining welfare caseloads and that the more stringent the sanctioning practices, the greater the declines. Hill and O'Neil's studies of National Longitudinal Survey data are cited to buttress claims that welfare is more detrimental to children than poverty. The first study of NLSY79 data cited found that children of welfare recipients were 50% more likely to have a child out of wedlock. The second study of NLSY79 and Children of the NLSY79 data found that the longer a child spends in the welfare system, the lower his or her IQ compared with children who are identical in race, income, and other social and economic factors. Specifically, "O'Neill and Hill found that those who had spent at least two months of each year, since birth, on AFDC had cognitive abilities 20 percent below the cognitive abilities of those who had received no welfare--even after holding constant such variables as family income, race, and parental IQ." |
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Rector, Robert and Sarah E. Youssef. Determinants of Welfare Caseload Decline. Report #99-04, Center for Data Analysis. Washington, DC: The Heritage Foundation, May 11, 1999.. |
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Shokraii, Nina H. Rector, Robert |
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After 33 Years and $30 Billion, Time to Find Out if Head Start Produces Results Backgrounder #1202 Report, The Heritage Foundation, July 15, 1998. Also: http://www.heritage.org/Research/Education/BG1202.cfm Cohort(s): NLSY79 Publisher: The Heritage Foundation Keyword(s): Head Start Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. This paper argues that the effectiveness of the Head Start program has been insufficiently studied and calls for its evaluation using NLSY data. The NLSY study would examine a wide range of outcomes, including cognitive, socio-emotional, behavioral, and academic development, while controlling for such factors as family background, the mother's intelligence quotient (IQ), and the mother's level of education. The authors note that there is a tendency on the part of NLSY parents to overstate the attendance of their children in Head Start and ask that the researchers adjust the data accordingly. |
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Shokraii, Nina H. and Robert Rector. "After 33 Years and $30 Billion, Time to Find Out if Head Start Produces Results." Backgrounder #1202 Report, The Heritage Foundation, July 15, 1998. |