Breaking the cycle? The effect of education on welfare receipt among children of welfare recipients

Michael Coelli, David Green and William P. Warburton
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William P. Warburton: Institute for Fiscal Studies

No W04/14, IFS Working Papers from Institute for Fiscal Studies

Abstract: We examine the impact of high school graduation on the probability individuals from welfare backgrounds use welfare themselves. Our data consists of administrative educational records for grade 12 students in a Canadian province linked with their own and their parents' welfare records. We address potential endogeneity problems by: 1) controlling for ability using past test scores; 2) using an instrument for graduation based on school principal fixed effects; and 3) using a Heckman- Singer type unobserved heterogeneity estimator. Graduation would reduce welfare receipt of dropoutsby ?to 3/4. Effects are larger for individuals from troubled family backgrounds and low income neighbourhoods.

JEL-codes: I21 I38 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 69 pp.
Date: 2004-06-01
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