Behavioral Effects of Welfare Reform

PIs: Nancy E. Reichman, Hope Corman, and Dhaval Dave

Funder: NICHD

This project exploits variation in welfare policy across states and over time and uses relevant comparison groups to estimate the effects of welfare reform on adult women’s high school, college, and vocational education enrollment. Mediating effects of work and family structure are explored, as is the extent to which effects differ by age of children, age of the mother, race/ethnicity, job skill level, inner city residence, labor market conditions, and local housing prices.