Welfare and the Well-Being of Children
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AFDC Benefit
AFDC Benefit State
AFDC Mother
AFDC Participation
AFDC Recipient
AFQT
Attended Head Start
Author_Janet M. Currie
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child health outcomes
child poverty measurement
credit
earned
educational attainment research
EITC
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food
Food Research
Food Stamp Program
Food Stamps
Household Nutrient Availability
Housing Assistance
impact of welfare programmes on children
income
Individual Nutrient Intakes
Instrumental Variables Technique
intergenerational disadvantage
longitudinal
Maximum AFDC
Medicaid Coverage
national
OLS Estimate
OLS Regression
Pro Gram
program
quantitative policy analysis
SBP
social policy evaluation
stamp
survey
tax
Welfare Reform
WIC Participant
WIC Participation
WIC Program
Product details
- ISBN 9781138165762
- Weight: 453g
- Dimensions: 138 x 216mm
- Publication Date: 07 Feb 2017
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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An analysis of eight of the largest US welfare programmes affecting children. These programmes include Aid to Families with Dependent Children, the Food Stamp Program. Medicaid, housing assistance, supplemental feeding programmes such as WIC and School Lunch, Head Start and the Earned Income Tax Credit. Despite the fact that these programmes were designed to serve children, most discussion of welfare reforms focuses on the incentives that the welfare system creates for parents. This analysis represents an evaluation of the evidence regarding the effects of welfare programmes on the children themselves. Programmes such as Medicaid and Head Start have a larger effect on measures of child well-being than cash transfer programs such as AFDC. This suggests an economic rationale for the recent trend towards providing a larger proportion of assistance in-kind.
Janet M. Currie University of California, Los Angeles, USA, Finis Welch Texas A&M University, Texas, USA
