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Welfare use and children's longer-term achievement

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  • Shan-Ying Chu
  • Hau Chyi

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We investigate the effects of mothers' welfare use on children's longer-term performance. To address issues of improper comparison groups and the endogenous nature of welfare participation, we focus on less-educated single mothers and adopt a correction function approach. Data are drawn from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1979 - Children and Young Adult from 1994 to 2010. Estimation results confirm the positive longer-term effects of mothers' welfare use. On average, a child whose mother used welfare in all 20 quarters after childbirth experiences a 0.56-point increase in their yearly high school grade point average, is 12% more likely to graduate from high school and earns $1112.76 more in the first-observed income than a child whose mother does not.

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  • Shan-Ying Chu & Hau Chyi, 2015. "Welfare use and children's longer-term achievement," Applied Economics, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 47(39), pages 4200-4207, August.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:applec:v:47:y:2015:i:39:p:4200-4207
    DOI: 10.1080/00036846.2015.1026584
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