Welfare use and children's longer-term achievement

Shan-Ying Chu and Hau Chyi

Applied Economics, 2015, vol. 47, issue 39, 4200-4207

Abstract: We investigate the effects of mothers' welfare use on children's longer-term performance. To address issues of improper comparison groups and the endogenous nature of welfare participation, we focus on less-educated single mothers and adopt a correction function approach. Data are drawn from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1979 - Children and Young Adult from 1994 to 2010. Estimation results confirm the positive longer-term effects of mothers' welfare use. On average, a child whose mother used welfare in all 20 quarters after childbirth experiences a 0.56-point increase in their yearly high school grade point average, is 12% more likely to graduate from high school and earns $1112.76 more in the first-observed income than a child whose mother does not.

Date: 2015
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DOI: 10.1080/00036846.2015.1026584

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