Welfare Rules, Incentives, and Family Structure

主讲人

Robert A. Moffit

简介

<div><strong>Abstract:</strong></div> <div>In this study we provide a new examination of the incentive effects of welfare rules on family structure. Focusing on the AFDC and TANF programs, which have been most studied on this issue, we first emphasize that the literature, by and large, has assumed that the rules of those programs make a key distinction between married women and cohabiting women, but this is not a correct interpretation. In fact, it is the biological relationship between the children and any male in the household that primarily determines how the family is treated. In an empirical analysis conducted over the period 1996 to 2004 that correctly matches family structure outcomes to welfare rules, we find significant effects of some welfare rules on family structure. We also find that those effects are particularly strong among women on welfare. For all of our results, our findings indicate that the impact of welfare rules crucially hinges on the biological relationship of the male partner to the children in the household.</div> <p><span style="font-family: 宋体, arial; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;">Note: The &ldquo;WISE-IZA&rdquo; seminar series is transmitted from IZA in Bonn using e-conference technology.</span></p>

时间

2015-03-24(星期二)19:15-20:30

地点

N118 经济楼/Economics Building

讲座语言

English

主办单位

WISE-SOE

承办单位

类型

系列讲座

联系人信息

主持人

Jiaming Mao (WISE)

专题网站

专题

主讲人简介

<p><span style="font-size:10.5pt">Johns Hopkins University and IZA</span></p> <p><a href="http://www.iza.org/en/webcontent/personnel/photos/index_html?key=424"><span style="font-size: 14px;">Prof. Robert A. Moffit' homepage</span></a></p>

期数

"WISE-IZA" Seminar Series No. 115 (No.2 of 2015 Spring)

主讲人: Robert A. Moffit
主讲人简介:

Johns Hopkins University and IZA

Prof. Robert A. Moffit' homepage

主持人: Jiaming Mao (WISE)
简介:
系列讲座
时间: 2015-03-24(星期二)19:15-20:30
地点: N118 经济楼/Economics Building
期数: "WISE-IZA" Seminar Series No. 115 (No.2 of 2015 Spring)
主办单位: WISE-SOE
类型: 系列讲座