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Title: Inter-Generational Transfer of Welfare Dependency: Program Effects on Future Welfare Recipiency
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Antel, John J. |
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Inter-Generational Transfer of Welfare Dependency: Program Effects on Future Welfare Recipiency Final Report, Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation, Department of Health and Human Services, 1986 Cohort(s): NLSY79 Publisher: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Keyword(s): Childbearing; Educational Attainment; Fertility; Parental Influences; Teenagers; Transfers, Public; Welfare The report analyzes how parental welfare participation affects the fertility and schooling decisions of children in welfare families (fertility and low earning potential are prerequisites for welfare dependency). Data from the NLSY permitted observation of young women still living at home in the early panel years (1979-1980). Later panel years (1981-1983) permitted the researcher to follow these young women past the normal high school graduation age and determine whether or not they completed high school or had a child. Estimation of a statistical model of behavior indicated that there were no parental welfare participation effects on young girls' fertility or high school completion decisions. According to these estimates, welfare participation by the parents in a child's teenage years neither increases nor decreases the probability of high school graduation or early childbearing. Further evidence from future data collection waves may, of course, modify these findings. [NTIS PB86-161262-XAB] |
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Antel, John J. "Inter-Generational Transfer of Welfare Dependency: Program Effects on Future Welfare Recipiency." Final Report, Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation, Department of Health and Human Services, 1986. |