DEMAND FOR TANF IN MISSISSIPPI

Swindell, James W.,, Steven W. Martin, Lynn Reinschmiedt and Darren Hudson ()

No 21680, 1999 Annual meeting, August 8-11, Nashville, TN from American Agricultural Economics Association (New Name 2008: Agricultural and Applied Economics Association)

Abstract: The federal to state devolution of welfare programs accent the need for state and local policy makers to anticipate aggregate welfare demand. Pooled regression analysis using six years of county-level Mississippi TANF data identified effects of rurality, education, unemployment, poverty levels, and family structure on caseload numbers.

Keywords: Food Security and Poverty; Public Economics (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1999
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