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Author: Seidman, Edward
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1. Yoshikawa, Hirokazu
Seidman, Edward
Multidimensional Profiles of Welfare and Work Dynamics: Development, Validation, and Associations with Child Cognitive and Mental Health Outcomes
American Journal of Community Psychology 29,6 (December 2001): 907-936.
Also: http://www.springerlink.com/content/q5g152527015xn26/
Cohort(s): Children of the NLSY79, NLSY79
Publisher: Plenum Publishing Corporation
Keyword(s): Aid for Families with Dependent Children (AFDC); Behavior Problems Index (BPI); Child Development; Cognitive Development; Earnings; Employment; Maternal Employment; Peabody Individual Achievement Test (PIAT- Reading); Poverty; Welfare; Work History

This prospective study addresses multidimensional variation in welfare use (Aid to Families with Dependent Children) and employment patterns, and relationships of such variation with parent earnings and child development outcomes. Cluster analysis was utilized, using monthly welfare and employment data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth, to examine variation within the welfare population in their welfare and work patterns across the 1st 5 yrs of children's lives. Six cluster profiles of welfare and work dynamics were found: Short-Term, Short-Term Work Exit, Working Cyclers, Nonworking Cyclers, Cycle to Long-Term Exit, and Long-Term. The clusters were validated using mother's 6th-yr earnings as the criterion. The clusters' associations with child development outcomes in the cognitive and mental health domains (at ages 6 and 7) were then explored. Work following short-term welfare use was associated with higher child reading scores than that following long-term use (a moderate-size effect). Cycling on and off welfare in the context of high levels of employment was associated with higher child internalizing symptoms than cycling accompanied by low levels of employment (a moderate-size effect). Implications for evaluation of welfare-to-work policies are discussed. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2000 APA, all rights reserved):
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Yoshikawa, Hirokazu and Edward Seidman. "Multidimensional Profiles of Welfare and Work Dynamics: Development, Validation, and Associations with Child Cognitive and Mental Health Outcomes." American Journal of Community Psychology 29,6 (December 2001): 907-936.