Welfare Rules, Incentives, and Family Structure
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Welfare Rules, Incentives, and Family Structure
We provide a new examination of the incentive effects of welfare rules on family structure among low-income women by emphasizing that the eligibility and benefit rules in the AFDC and TANF programs are based more on the biological relationship between the children and any male in the household than on marriage or cohabitation per se. Using data from 1996 through 2008, we analyze the effects of ...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Human Resources
سال: 2018
ISSN: 0022-166X,1548-8004
DOI: 10.3368/jhr.55.1.0717.8928r