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Welfare Reform and Children's Living Arrangements

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  • Marianne P. Bitler
  • Jonah Gelbach
  • Hilary Hoynes

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Relatively little is known about the impact of welfare reform on children's living arrangements, which was an important focus of reformers. We use data from the March CPS to examine this question. Our findings suggest three main conclusions. First, welfare reform in some cases has had large effects on parental co-residence among children. Second, those effects are neither entirely aligned with the stated goals of reform nor entirely in spite of these goals. Third, there is a great deal of treatment effect heterogeneity both with respect to racial and ethnic groups and with respect to whether reforms were waivers, TANF in states that had waivers, or TANF in states that did not.

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  • Marianne P. Bitler & Jonah Gelbach & Hilary Hoynes, 2004. "Welfare Reform and Children's Living Arrangements," Working Papers WR-111-NICHD/NIA, RAND Corporation.
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    Keywords

    welfare reform; living arrangements;

    JEL classification:

    • I3 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Welfare, Well-Being, and Poverty
    • J1 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demographic Economics

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