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Title: Poverty and Welfare Duration Among Young Adults
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Sandefur, Gary D. Cook, Steven T. |
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Poverty and Welfare Duration Among Young Adults Presented: Miami, FL, Population Association of America Meetings, May 1994 Cohort(s): NLSY79 Publisher: Population Association of America Keyword(s): Education Indicators; Family Circumstances, Changes in; Fathers; Heterogeneity; Modeling, Hazard/Event History/Survival/Duration; Poverty; Racial Differences; Welfare Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. This paper examines the poverty and welfare careers of young people during the period from late adolescence to young adulthood. During this period individuals are especially vulnerable to experiencing periods of poverty and to using public assistance programs. We describe differences in patterns of poverty and public assistance receipt for different racial and ethnic groups and for different social classes (as defined by parental education and fathers occupation. The study employs monthly data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth to model welfare use for these age groups which are particularly vulnerable to becoming poor and/or using public assistance and to examine the appropriateness of different hazard models to describe the probability of exiting welfare programs. In addition parameters are included to capture the effects of unobserved heterogeneity on this probability. |
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Sandefur, Gary D. and Steven T. Cook. "Poverty and Welfare Duration Among Young Adults." Presented: Miami, FL, Population Association of America Meetings, May 1994. |