Welfare Reform and Children's Living Arrangements

Marianne P. Bitler (), Jonah Gelbach and Hilary Williamson Hoynes

No 111, Working Papers from RAND Corporation Publications Department

Abstract: Relatively little is known about the impact of welfare reform on children's living arrangements, which was an important focus of reformers. We use data from the March CPS to examine this question. Our findings suggest three main conclusions. First, welfare reform in some cases has had large effects on parental co-residence among children. Second, those effects are neither entirely aligned with the stated goals of reform nor entirely in spite of these goals. Third, there is a great deal of treatment effect heterogeneity both with respect to racial and ethnic groups and with respect to whether reforms were waivers, TANF in states that had waivers, or TANF in states that did not.

Keywords: welfare reform; living arrangements (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I3 J1 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2003-10
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