The Effect of Quarantining Welfare on School Attendance in Indigenous Communities

Deborah Cobb-Clark, Nathan Kettlewell, Stefanie Schurer and Sven Silburn

Journal of Human Resources, 2023, vol. 58, issue 6, 2072-2110

Abstract: We identify the causal impact of quarantining welfare payments on Aboriginal children’s school attendance by exploiting exogenous variation in its rollout across communities. We find that income quarantining reduced attendance by 4.7 percent on average in the first five months. Attendance eventually returned to its initial level, but never improved. The attendance penalty does not operate through changes in student enrollments, geographic mobility, or other policy initiatives. Instead, we demonstrate that financial disruption may be responsible for the temporary reduction in school attendance. Supplemental analysis suggests that the policy rollout may have increased family discord.

JEL-codes: D04 I28 I38 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023
Note: DOI: https://doi.org/10.3368/jhr.1218-9909R2
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