The impact of AFDC on birth decisions and program participation

Elizabeth Powers

No 9408, Working Papers (Old Series) from Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland

Abstract: A longitudinal study examining how the level of AFDC benefits and the per-child increment affect births. Although the findings support the \"AFDC benefits cause births\" hypothesis, the author shows that eliminating the new-birth increment would reduce total program costs by less than 3 percent, since both the per-dollar effect of benefits on births and the per-child increments themselves are small.

Keywords: Demography; Welfare (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1994
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