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Title: Effects of Heterogeneity in Marital Status on Welfare Participation
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Kumazawa, Risa |
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Effects of Heterogeneity in Marital Status on Welfare Participation Working Paper, Department of Economics, Illinois Wesleyan University, Bloomington, IL, April 2003 Cohort(s): NLSY79 Publisher: Department of Economics, Illinois Wesleyan University Keyword(s): Ethnic Studies; Geocoded Data; Heterogeneity; Marital Status; Modeling, Hazard/Event History/Survival/Duration; Modeling, Probit; Racial Studies; Welfare Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. This paper investigates the heterogeneity of unmarried mothers who participate on welfare, which is predicted to be correlated with the welfare generosity of the states of residence. Two econometric methods for dealing with heterogeneity are introduced. The first uses observed marital status variables while the second uses predicted hazard rates of marriage from the Cox proportional hazard model constructed from marital histories of the women. The pooled probit welfare participation regressions use these measures of heterogeneity in marital status to control for unobservable differences among women in the sample. The results suggest that predicted hazard rates of marriage are highly correlated with race and ethnicity variables, making minority women no different from white women in their welfare proneness once their arriageability is controlled for. In addition, divorced women with higher marriage prospects are more likely to participate on welfare, suggesting that they consider marriage and welfare to be substitutes.... The data used for this study is the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth (NLSY) with supplementary geocode data that indicate where the respondent lived each year. |
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Kumazawa, Risa. "Effects of Heterogeneity in Marital Status on Welfare Participation." Working Paper, Department of Economics, Illinois Wesleyan University, Bloomington, IL, April 2003. |