Isolating the Family Cap Effect on Fertility Behavior: Evidence From New Jersey's Family Development Program Experiment

Michael J. Camasso

Contemporary Economic Policy, 2004, vol. 22, issue 4, 453-467

Abstract: This study examines the unbundled impacts of a family cap policy and enhanced JOBS program on the fertility of 2100 women on welfare who were randomly assigned to experimental and control groups as part of New Jersey's welfare reform program. Data were collected quarterly from December 1992 through March 1997 on births, abortions, contraceptive pill use, and contraceptive sterilizations from welfare and Medicaid claim files. Results indicate that the family cap lowered births and increased abortions and contraception use but only for women who were short‐time welfare users. Enhanced JOBS exerted an independent effect on fertility of more chronic recipients. (JEL I38)

Date: 2004
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