How Sibling Composition Affects Adolescent Schooling Outcomes When Welfare Reform Policies Increase Maternal Employment

Lisa Gennetian ()
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Eastern Economic Journal, 2004, vol. 30, issue 1, 81-100

Abstract: Pooling across seven experimental studies, this paper examines the role of sibling composition in influencing the effects of 14 welfare and employment programs on adolescents. The findings confirm that these programs--that increase maternal employment--have unfavorable effects on schooling outcomes, decreasing adolescents' school performance, increasing grade repetition and increasing the likelihood of school dropout. Although sibling composition has no relationship with the unfavorable effects of these programs on adolescent's school performance, having a younger sibling does increase suspensions or expulsions and the likelihood of school dropout, possibly because adolescents are taking on additional responsibilities when their mother's employment increases.

Keywords: Adolescent; Schooling; Welfare (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I21 I38 J13 J16 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2004
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