NEW JERSEY’S FAMILY CAP AND FAMILY SIZE DECISIONS: FINDINGS FROM A FIVE-YEAR EVALUATION

Michael J Camasso, Radha Jagannathan, Mark Killingsworth and Carol Harvey

A chapter in Worker Well-Being and Public Policy, 2003, pp 71-112 from Emerald Group Publishing Limited

Abstract: The causal relationship between the size of welfare benefits and the birth decisions of women on welfare has been explored in a number of studies using a variety of analytical approaches applied to vital statistics data, data from the Current Population Survey, the Panel Study of Income Dynamics, or similar survey data. These studies typically use non-experimental methods to relate differences in birth rates or birth decisions across states to differences in welfare benefits levels. Analyses of this type have been criticized on several grounds. Benefits across states may be correlated with unobserved interstate differences that may also be related to birth decisions. Very often, these studies measure the key independent variable, welfare benefits level, as the cash benefit guarantee under the Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC) program for a household of fixed size, varying this amount by state of residence. Actual benefits paid will vary with household size, number of AFDC-eligible household members, other sources of income, and other factors.

Date: 2003
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