Parental and Public Transfers to Young Women and Their Children

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Parental and Public Transfers to Young Women and Their Children

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Rosenzweig, Mark R
Wolpin, Kenneth I

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This paper presents estimates of how an increase in welfare benefits for the welfare-eligible affects the provision of parental support in the form of both financial transfers and shared residence based on an overlapping-generations framework incorporating game-theoretic interactions among parents, their adult children, and the government. The empirical results, obtained from two longitudinal data sets, indicate that the parents view a dollar of income earned by their daughters as equivalent to a dollar increase in welfare benefits. However, there exists only a small trade-off between the generosity of government aid and the incidence of parental aid. Copyright 1994 by American Economic Association.

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Volume (Year): 84 (1994)
Issue (Month): 5 (December)
Pages: 1195-1212
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