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Title: Mother's Welfare Dependency Effects on Daughter's Early Fertility and Fertility Out of Wedlock
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Antel, John J. |
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Mother's Welfare Dependency Effects on Daughter's Early Fertility and Fertility Out of Wedlock Working Paper, University of Houston, 1988 Cohort(s): NLSY79 Publisher: University of Houston Keyword(s): Childbearing; Fertility; Geographical Variation; Heterogeneity; Intergenerational Patterns/Transmission; Mothers and Daughters; Simultaneity; Welfare Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. Parameter estimates suggest that a mother's welfare participation increases her daughter's early fertility and early fertility out of wedlock. Early fertility is defined as first birth before age twenty-one. Using data from the NLSY, mother's welfare participation and daughter's fertility are simultaneously modeled to avoid any bias derived from unobserved family-specific heterogeneity. While the welfare system affects a young girl's fertility predominately through the dependency of her mother, some small direct effect of state guarantee rates on illegitimate births is also indicated. |
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Antel, John J. "Mother's Welfare Dependency Effects on Daughter's Early Fertility and Fertility Out of Wedlock." Working Paper, University of Houston, 1988. |