Childhood Welfare Exposure and Economic Outcomes for Adult Daughters and Sons

Autores
Hartley, Robert Paul; Lamarche, Carlos; Ziliak, James P.
Año de publicación
2025
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inglés
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documento de trabajo
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versión enviada
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We investigate how length of time on welfare during childhood affects economic outcomes in early adulthood. Using intergenerationally linked mother-child pairs from the Panel Study of Income Dynamics, we adopt a nonlinear difference-in-differences framework using the 1990s welfare reform to estimate average and quantile treatment effects on intensity of welfare use and earnings in adulthood. The causal estimates indicate that additional childhood welfare exposure leads to more adulthood years on the broader safety net for both daughters and sons, yet this positive relationship only applies below moderate levels of adult welfare participation and reverses at greater levels of dependence. Increasing childhood welfare exposure implies lower earnings in adulthood for daughters, however we find no evidence that it depresses adult sons’ earnings. Both daughters and sons exhibit some wage penalty from childhood welfare exposure, yet only daughters are penalized through hours worked in the labor market.
Centro de Estudios Distributivos, Laborales y Sociales
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Ciencias Económicas
intergenerational welfare
nonlinear difference-in-differences
quantile correlations
quantile treatment effects
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dc.title.none.fl_str_mv Childhood Welfare Exposure and Economic Outcomes for Adult Daughters and Sons
title Childhood Welfare Exposure and Economic Outcomes for Adult Daughters and Sons
spellingShingle Childhood Welfare Exposure and Economic Outcomes for Adult Daughters and Sons
Hartley, Robert Paul
Ciencias Económicas
intergenerational welfare
nonlinear difference-in-differences
quantile correlations
quantile treatment effects
title_short Childhood Welfare Exposure and Economic Outcomes for Adult Daughters and Sons
title_full Childhood Welfare Exposure and Economic Outcomes for Adult Daughters and Sons
title_fullStr Childhood Welfare Exposure and Economic Outcomes for Adult Daughters and Sons
title_full_unstemmed Childhood Welfare Exposure and Economic Outcomes for Adult Daughters and Sons
title_sort Childhood Welfare Exposure and Economic Outcomes for Adult Daughters and Sons
dc.creator.none.fl_str_mv Hartley, Robert Paul
Lamarche, Carlos
Ziliak, James P.
author Hartley, Robert Paul
author_facet Hartley, Robert Paul
Lamarche, Carlos
Ziliak, James P.
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author2 Lamarche, Carlos
Ziliak, James P.
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author
dc.subject.none.fl_str_mv Ciencias Económicas
intergenerational welfare
nonlinear difference-in-differences
quantile correlations
quantile treatment effects
topic Ciencias Económicas
intergenerational welfare
nonlinear difference-in-differences
quantile correlations
quantile treatment effects
dc.description.none.fl_txt_mv We investigate how length of time on welfare during childhood affects economic outcomes in early adulthood. Using intergenerationally linked mother-child pairs from the Panel Study of Income Dynamics, we adopt a nonlinear difference-in-differences framework using the 1990s welfare reform to estimate average and quantile treatment effects on intensity of welfare use and earnings in adulthood. The causal estimates indicate that additional childhood welfare exposure leads to more adulthood years on the broader safety net for both daughters and sons, yet this positive relationship only applies below moderate levels of adult welfare participation and reverses at greater levels of dependence. Increasing childhood welfare exposure implies lower earnings in adulthood for daughters, however we find no evidence that it depresses adult sons’ earnings. Both daughters and sons exhibit some wage penalty from childhood welfare exposure, yet only daughters are penalized through hours worked in the labor market.
Centro de Estudios Distributivos, Laborales y Sociales
description We investigate how length of time on welfare during childhood affects economic outcomes in early adulthood. Using intergenerationally linked mother-child pairs from the Panel Study of Income Dynamics, we adopt a nonlinear difference-in-differences framework using the 1990s welfare reform to estimate average and quantile treatment effects on intensity of welfare use and earnings in adulthood. The causal estimates indicate that additional childhood welfare exposure leads to more adulthood years on the broader safety net for both daughters and sons, yet this positive relationship only applies below moderate levels of adult welfare participation and reverses at greater levels of dependence. Increasing childhood welfare exposure implies lower earnings in adulthood for daughters, however we find no evidence that it depresses adult sons’ earnings. Both daughters and sons exhibit some wage penalty from childhood welfare exposure, yet only daughters are penalized through hours worked in the labor market.
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