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This study tests whether individuals who grow up with parents on welfare benefits are themselves more (or less) likely to be welfare recipients as young adults, compared to individuals who grow up in non-welfare households. We use the sibling difference method to identify causal effects...
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This study tests whether individuals who grow up with parents on welfare benefits are themselves more (or less) likely to be welfare recipients as young adults, compared to individuals who grow up in non-welfare households. We use the sibling difference method to identify causal effects...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009410322
over time, 40 percent of women remain poor five years after exit. Women with more advantaged family backgrounds, those with …
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A rich literature in economics and the social sciences has shown that improvements in women's socio-economic status (SES) can also improve the well-being of their children. This chapter identifies several channels for this effect, drawing on both theoretical and empirical work in economics....
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all of its transition models and for the endogeneity of welfare participation in its headship model. The estimation …
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More able parents tend to have more able children. While few would question the validity of this statement, there is little large-scale evidence on the intergenerational transmission of IQ scores. Using a larger and more comprehensive dataset than previous work, we are able to estimate the...
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children reared in two-parent families. Evidence from the United States and Sweden indicates that living in a non-intact family … United States and Sweden is interesting because both family structure and public policy environments in the two countries … differ significantly. Family structure could potentially have a less negative effect in Sweden than in the United States …
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step, we investigate whether the observed correlations reflect causal effects of past welfare experience. We use family … suggest that the strong intergenerational correlation of welfare benefit receipt is determined by family background rather …
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step, we investigate whether the observed correlations reflect causal effects of past welfare experience. We use family … suggest that the strong intergenerational correlation of welfare benefit receipt is determined by family background rather …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014439902
step, we investigate whether the observed correlations reflect causal effects of past welfare experience. We use family … suggest that the strong intergenerational correlation of welfare benefit receipt is determined by family background rather …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014442725