How Did Safety-Net Reform Affect Early Adulthood among Adolescents from Low-Income Families?

Jacob Bastian, Luorao Bian () and Jeffrey Grogger

National Tax Journal, 2021, vol. 74, issue 3, 825 - 865

Abstract: In the 1990s, the US safety net was substantially reformed. We ask how those reforms collectively affected early-career outcomes among youths who were teens when the reforms took effect. We consider employment, safety-net participation, marriage, and childbearing between the ages of 18 and 32. We take a difference-in-difference approach, tracking adolescents from two generations roughly 20 years apart. In each generation, we compare two groups, one of which was more likely to have been affected by safety-net reform than the other. We find evidence that safety-net reform increased women’s labor supply and decreased marriage.

Date: 2021
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