| 来源类型 | Working Paper |
| 规范类型 | 报告 |
| DOI | 10.3386/w26238 |
| 来源ID | Working Paper 26238 |
| Changes in Family Structure and Welfare Participation Since the 1960s: The Role of Legal Services | |
| Andrew Goodman-Bacon; Jamein P. Cunningham | |
| 发表日期 | 2019-09-09 |
| 出版年 | 2019 |
| 语种 | 英语 |
| 摘要 | This paper evaluates the effects of the War on Poverty’s Legal Services Program (LSP) on family structure and welfare participation. LSPs provided subsidized legal assistance to poor communities, focusing on divorce and welfare access. We use a difference-in-differences research design based on the rollout of the program to 251 counties from 1965 to 1975. We find temporary increases in divorce and persistent increases in welfare participation and nonmarital birth rates. Nonmarital births rose because marriage rates fell, not because birth rates rose. Expanded access to legal institutions thus contributed, directly and indirectly, to changes in family structure in the 1960s. |
| 主题 | Public Economics ; Health, Education, and Welfare ; Poverty and Wellbeing ; History ; Labor and Health History |
| URL | https://www.nber.org/papers/w26238 |
| 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/583910 |
| 推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Andrew Goodman-Bacon,Jamein P. Cunningham. Changes in Family Structure and Welfare Participation Since the 1960s: The Role of Legal Services. 2019. |
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