Intergenerational Effects of Welfare Reform: Adolescent Delinquent and Risky Behaviors

Dhaval Dave, Hope Corman, Ariel Kalil, Ofira Schwartz-Soicher and Nancy Reichman

No 25527, NBER Working Papers from National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc

Abstract: This study investigates effects of welfare reform in the U.S. on the next generation. Most previous studies of effects of welfare reform on adolescents focused on high-school dropout of girls or fertility; little is known about how welfare reform has affected teenage boys. We use a difference-in-difference-in-differences framework to identify gender-specific effects of welfare reform on salient adolescent behaviors (skipping school, fighting, damaging property, stealing, hurting others, smoking, alcohol, marijuana, other illicit drugs). Welfare reform led to increases in delinquent behaviors of boys as well as increases in substance use of boys and girls, with substantially larger effects for boys.

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Date: 2019-02
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Published as Dhaval Dave & Hope Corman & Ariel Kalil & Ofira Schwartz‐Soicher & Nancy E. Reichman, 2021. "INTERGENERATIONAL EFFECTS OF WELFARE REFORM: ADOLESCENT DELINQUENT AND RISKY BEHAVIORS," Economic Inquiry, vol 59(1), pages 199-216.

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