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Child Poverty, the Great Recession, and the Social Safety Net in the United States
Bitler, Marianne - 2016
In this paper, we comprehensively examine the effects of the Great Recession on child poverty, with particular … panel data model and data for 2000 to 2014, we estimate the relationship between the business cycle and child poverty, and … that the safety net provides protection; that is, the cyclicality of after-tax-and-transfer child poverty is significantly …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012455998
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Mothers as Insurance : Family Spillovers in WIC
Bitler, Marianne; Currie, Janet M.; Hoynes, Hilary W.; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
The Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) is a widely used program. Previous research shows that WIC improves birth outcomes, but evidence about impacts on children and families is limited. We use a regression discontinuity leveraging an age five when...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013334331