| 来源类型 | Working Paper |
| 规范类型 | 报告 |
| DOI | 10.3386/w22682 |
| 来源ID | Working Paper 22682 |
| Child Poverty, the Great Recession, and the Social Safety Net in the United States | |
| Marianne Bitler; Hilary Hoynes; Elira Kuka | |
| 发表日期 | 2016-09-26 |
| 出版年 | 2016 |
| 语种 | 英语 |
| 摘要 | In this paper, we comprehensively examine the effects of the Great Recession on child poverty, with particular attention to the role of the social safety net in mitigating the adverse effects of shocks to earnings and income. Using a state panel data model and data for 2000 to 2014, we estimate the relationship between the business cycle and child poverty, and we examine how and to what extent the safety net is providing protection to at-risk children. We find compelling evidence that the safety net provides protection; that is, the cyclicality of after-tax-and-transfer child poverty is significantly attenuated relative to the cyclicality of private income poverty. We also find that the protective effect of the safety net is not similar across demographic groups, and that children from more disadvantaged backgrounds, such as those living with non-Hispanic black or Hispanic, single, or particularly immigrant household heads-or immigrant spouses, experience larger poverty cyclicality than non-Hispanic white, married, or native household heads with native spouses. Our findings hold across a host of choices for how to define poverty. These include measures based on absolute thresholds or more relative thresholds. They also hold for measures of resources that include not only cash and near cash transfers net of taxes but also several measures of medical benefits. |
| 主题 | Health, Education, and Welfare ; Poverty and Wellbeing ; Labor Economics ; Labor Supply and Demand |
| URL | https://www.nber.org/papers/w22682 |
| 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/580354 |
| 推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Marianne Bitler,Hilary Hoynes,Elira Kuka. Child Poverty, the Great Recession, and the Social Safety Net in the United States. 2016. |
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| w22682.pdf（860KB） | 智库出版物 | 限制开放 | CC BY-NC-SA | 浏览 | ||
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