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Title: Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC) and Non-Marital Births in the USA: An Examination of Causality
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Stevans, Lonnie K. |
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Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC) and Non-Marital Births in the USA: An Examination of Causality Applied Economics 28,4 (April 1996): 417-427. Also: http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/000368496328542 Cohort(s): NLSY79 Publisher: Chapman & Hall Keyword(s): Aid for Families with Dependent Children (AFDC); Endogeneity; Family Characteristics; Fertility; Marital Status; Marriage; Program Participation/Evaluation; Simultaneity; Welfare Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. Utilizing a sample of 2,964 unmarried women over the period 1979-1988 from the US National Longitudinal Survey of Youth, a test was performed to determine the causal direction of relationship between receipt of aid to families with dependent children (AFDC) and the decision to have a non-marital birth. The existence of causality is defined as the lack of a simultaneous relationship or joint dependency between these variables. One of the most interesting findings was a failure to reject the hypothesis that these choices are jointly determined. Both were found to depend upon variables that are demographic, economic, personal, and family-related. The profiles derived from the specification and estimation of a simultaneous equation system with discrete endogenous variables depict a woman whose fertility and economic decisions were predominately based on economic deprivation, demographic situation, and family instability. Photocopy available from ABI/INFORM. |
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Stevans, Lonnie K. "Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC) and Non-Marital Births in the USA: An Examination of Causality." Applied Economics 28,4 (April 1996): 417-427.
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