The study of welfare participation in the U.S. prior to the 1996 welfare reform act and even afterward has focused on …, there is no study yet that tests for difference in welfare usage among immigrant groups and immigrant status. We do not … expect welfare usage to differ among immigrant groups if we control for the factors that should predict welfare usage …

participate in the labor market and whether to receive welfare. Hourly child care expenditures are estimated for all women in the … child care. These expenditures are then included as an independent variable predicting the probability of welfare recipiency … welfare recipiency, with a child care price elasticity of welfare recipiency equaling 0.28. The estimated child care price …