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| 100 | 1_ | $aDave, Dhaval. |
| 245 | 10 | $aEffects of welfare reform on educational acquisition of young adult women /$cDhaval M. Dave, Nancy E. Reichman, Hope Corman. |
| 264 | _1 | $aCambridge, Mass. :$bNational Bureau of Economic Research,$c[2008] |
| 264 | _4 | $c©2008 |
| 300 | $a45 pages :$billustrations, digital. | |
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| 490 | 1_ | $aNBER working paper series ;$vno. 14466 |
| 500 | $a"November 2008" | |
| 504 | $aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 34-35). | |
| 520 | $aEducation beyond traditional ages for schooling is an important source of human capital accumulation among adult women. Welfare reform, which began in the early 1990s and culminated in the passage of the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act in 1996, has promoted work rather than educational acquisition for this group. Exploiting variation in welfare reform across states and over time and using relevant comparison groups, we undertake a comprehensive study of the effects of welfare reform on adult women's human capital acquisition. We first estimate effects of welfare reform on high school dropout of teenage girls, both to improve on past research on this issue and to explore compositional changes that may be relevant for our primary analyses of the effects of welfare reform on the educational acquisition of adult women. We conduct numerous specification checks and explore the mediating role of work. We find robust and convincing evidence that welfare reform has significantly decreased the probability of both high school and college attendance among young adult women₇by 20-25 percent. This result indicates that the gains from welfare reform in terms of increases in employment and reductions in caseloads have come at a cost in terms of lower educational attainment among adult women at risk for relying on welfare. | |
| 533 | $aElectronic reproduction.$bCambridge, Mass. :$cNational Bureau of Economic Research.$nMode of access: World Wide Web; may require Adobe Acrobat Reader. | |
| 650 | _0 | $aPublic welfare$xSocial aspects$zUnited States. |
| 650 | _0 | $aYoung women$xEducation$xEconomic aspects$zUnited States. |
| 650 | _0 | $aPoor women$xEducation$zUnited States. |
| 700 | 1_ | $aReichman, Nancy E. |
| 700 | 1_ | $aCorman, Hope. |
| 710 | 2_ | $aNational Bureau of Economic Research. |
| 830 | _0 | $aWorking paper series (National Bureau of Economic Research) ;$vno. 14466. |
| 856 | 40 | $uhttp://www.nber.org/papers/w14466 |
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