Intergenerational Effects of Welfare Reform: Adolescent Delinquent and Risky Behaviors / Dhaval M. Dave, Hope Corman, Ariel Kalil, Ofira Schwartz-Soicher, Nancy Reichman.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Dave, Dhaval M.

Contributor:

National Bureau of Economic Research.

Corman, Hope.

Kalil, Ariel.

Schwartz-Soicher, Ofira.

Reichman, Nancy.

Series:

Working Paper Series (National Bureau of Economic Research) no. w25527.

NBER working paper series no. w25527

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource: illustrations (black and white);

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, Mass. National Bureau of Economic Research 2019.

Summary:

This study investigates effects of welfare reform in the U.S. on the next generation. Most previous studies of effects of welfare reform on adolescents focused on high-school dropout of girls or fertility; little is known about how welfare reform has affected teenage boys. We use a difference-in-difference-in-differences framework to identify gender-specific effects of welfare reform on salient adolescent behaviors (skipping school, fighting, damaging property, stealing, hurting others, smoking, alcohol, marijuana, other illicit drugs). Welfare reform led to increases in delinquent behaviors of boys as well as increases in substance use of boys and girls, with substantially larger effects for boys.

Notes:

Print version record

February 2019.