 Are the Determinants of Intergenerational Welfare Dependency Gender-specific?Gail Pacheco and
Tim Maloney
Australian Journal of Labour Economics (AJLE), 2003, vol. 6, issue 3, 371-382 Abstract: This paper presents a brief analysis of differences in welfare participation by gender in New Zealand. Using longitudinal data (the Christchurch Health and Development Study), structural and reduced-form regression models are estimated. Our results indicate that females have an estimated intergenerational correlation coefficient that is more than double that for males. Possible reasons for this gender difference appear to be both a larger direct effect of parents’ welfare dependency and a greater indirect effect through the educational outcome of the female youth. Specifically, two household characteristics (parents’ welfare recipiency and larger family size) significantly and negatively influence young female adults in terms of their educational attainment and consequently in terms of their higher likelihood of welfare recipiency. Keywords: Economics of Gender; Occupational and Intergenerational Mobility: Promotion; Welfare and Poverty: Government Programs Provision: and Effects of Welfare Programs (search for similar items in EconPapers) Downloads: (external link) Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:ozl:journl:v:6:y:2003:i:3:p:371-382 Access Statistics for this article More articles in Australian Journal of Labour Economics (AJLE) from Bankwest Curtin Economics Centre (BCEC), Curtin Business School Contact information at EDIRC. |
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