Premarital Childbearing and Welfare Receipt
The Role of Mothers' Receipt
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4573141 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Caroline Ratcliffe (Urban Institute, corresponding author), Caroline E Ratcliffe |
| Year | 2002 |
| Volume | 56 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 160 |
| Publication date | 2002-10-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Industrial and Labor Relations Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0019-7939 • E-ISSN: 2162-271X |
| Publisher | JSTOR (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/3270654 |
| OpenAlex | W3122000834, W2064304270 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 17 |
This study uses the 1968-91 Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID) to examine the relationship between mothers' receipt of Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC) welfare benefits and their daughters' premarital childbearing and welfare receipt. The results for black females suggest that black daughters from welfare-recipient households were more likely to become adult welfare recipients than were black daughters from non-welfare-recipient households, but that there was only a weak relationship between mothers' welfare receipt and daughters' premarital childbearing. These results suggest that premarital childbearing was not an important variable mediating intergenerational transmission of welfare use in black families. Other results call into question previous findings using PSID data that suggest the existence of intergenerational welfare transmission among non-blacks. Specifically, it appears that the sample of non-black daughters in the PSID is insufficient to provide a satisfactory answer to the question of welfare transmission for that group
Aid to Families with Dependent Children · Black women · Demographic economics · Economics · National Longitudinal Surveys · Panel Study of Income Dynamics · Political science · Receipt · Remarriage · Sociology · Survey of Income and Program Participation · Welfare · Welfare reform · Demography · Family Dynamics and Relationships · Gender Studies · Gender, Labor, and Family Dynamics · Intergenerational Family Dynamics and Caregiving · Law · Psychology · Social Policy and Reform Studies
The Panel Study of Income Dynamics after Fourteen Years
The Intergenerational Transmission of Welfare Receipt
The Intergenerational Transfer of Welfare Dependency
Teen Out-of-Wedlock Births and Welfare Receipt
The Intergenerational Transmission of Welfare Participation
Entry into marriage and parenthood by young men and women
Family structure and dependency
Children and marital disruption
Intergenerational patterns of teenage fertility
Differentials in Marital Instability
Family Structure and the Risk of a Premarital Birth
Equality of Schooling
Intergenerational Consequences of Family Disruption
Family Structure and the Reproduction of Poverty
The Impact of Social Status, Family Structure, and Neighborhood on the Fertility of Black Adolescents
| Highly cited | No |
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