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来源类型 | Working Paper |
规范类型 | 报告 |
DOI | 10.3386/w9406 |
来源ID | Working Paper 9406 |
Welfare Reform and Non-Marital Fertility in the 1990s: Evidence from Birth Records | |
Theodore Joyce; Robert Kaestner; Sanders Korenman | |
发表日期 | 2002-12-23 |
出版年 | 2002 |
语种 | 英语 |
摘要 | The 1996 Personal Responsibility Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act dramatically altered the economic incentive to bear children out-of-wedlock for economically disadvantaged women or couples most likely to avail themselves of welfare programs. We use data from vital statistics and a difference-in-differences research design to investigate whether state and federal welfare reform in the 1990s reduced rates of non-marital childbearing among women aged 19 to 39 at highest risk of welfare use, relative to women at lower risk. We find little consistent evidence for an effect of welfare reform on non-marital childbearing. This finding is similar to the literature that found little or mixed evidence for an effect of AFDC benefits. If anything, federal welfare reform has been associated with a small positive effect of two to three percent for white and black women ages 19 to 39. |
主题 | Health, Education, and Welfare ; Poverty and Wellbeing ; Labor Economics ; Demography and Aging |
URL | https://www.nber.org/papers/w9406 |
来源智库 | National Bureau of Economic Research (United States) |
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资源类型 | 智库出版物 |
条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/567025 |
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Theodore Joyce,Robert Kaestner,Sanders Korenman. Welfare Reform and Non-Marital Fertility in the 1990s: Evidence from Birth Records. 2002. |
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