1996
DOI: 10.2307/146151
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The Impact of Welfare on Young Mothers' Subsequent Childbearing Decisions

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“…For example, Fairlie and London (1997) report a family cap effect (on the likelihood of a nonmarital birth) of minus 60 percent that is not statistically significant at the 0.10 level. Acs (1996) appears to have encountered similar difficulties, albeit with smaller samples sizes. That more recent studies have not been characterized by relative imprecise estimates may well be related to the fact that they primarily rely on state-level panel data as apposed to micro data (Horvath and Peters 1999;Kearny 1994;Levine 2002;and Joyce et al 2004).…”
Section: Limitationsmentioning
confidence: 89%
“…For example, Fairlie and London (1997) report a family cap effect (on the likelihood of a nonmarital birth) of minus 60 percent that is not statistically significant at the 0.10 level. Acs (1996) appears to have encountered similar difficulties, albeit with smaller samples sizes. That more recent studies have not been characterized by relative imprecise estimates may well be related to the fact that they primarily rely on state-level panel data as apposed to micro data (Horvath and Peters 1999;Kearny 1994;Levine 2002;and Joyce et al 2004).…”
Section: Limitationsmentioning
confidence: 89%
“…Blau and Robbins (1989) find that a greater availability of childcare encourages fertility. Several papers exploit changes in the Aid to Families with Dependent Children program and recent welfare reforms to study potential effects on fertility (see Acs [1996] Fairlee and London [1997], Rosenzweig [1999], Joyce, Kaestner, and Korenman [2002], and Kearny [2002]). Overall, this literature finds no, or modest, effects.…”
Section: Literature Reviewmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…In particular, we introduce into utility functions a new argument called "social approval" (or "stigma" or "values")5 that is exogenous for individuals but is determined endogenously as a function of all individual behavior in past generations.6 Thus, the See, for example, Hoynes (1996) for a discussion of these trends, and Moffitt, Ribar and Wilhelm (1996) for an intriguing political economy explanation of the decline in benefits. Moffitt (1992), Murray (1993) and Acs (1994) examine differences between studies and find that there is only mixed evidence of a significant effect of welfare on illegitimacy. While Jackson and Klerman (1995) and Clarke and Strauss (1995) have demonstrated a positive link, Hoynes (1995), Duncan and Hoffman (1990), Lundberg and Plotnick (1990) and Ellwood and Bane (1985) have found either mixed results or failed to establish a significant relationship.…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%