The Effect of Economic Stability on Family Stability among Welfare Recipients  

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Lewin, Alisa C.

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Evaluation Review vol. 29 no. 3 (Jun. 2005), page 223-240.
Topik: poverty; divorce; welfare; AFDC; Link-Up
Fulltext: 223.pdf (122.09KB)

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The main rationale for defining two-parent families eligible for welfare was to keep families intact by eliminating an incentive for union dissolution. But there are other reasons for family instability, most notably women’s reduced economic gain from marriage associated with having a chronically unemployed husband. This article explores the hypothesis that husband’s unemployment increases union dissolution among welfare recipients. The analysis uses data from California’s Link-Up demonstration project. A discrete-time event-history methodology was employed to examine family instability. The findings show that husband’s unemployment and the family’s long-term welfare dependency lead to breakup, net of race, age, and number of children.

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