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Title: The Long-Run Impact of Cash Transfers to Poor Families

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Publication Year: 2016

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Abstract: We estimate the long-run impact of cash transfers to poor families on children's longevity, educational attainment, nutritional status, and income in adulthood. To do so, we collected individual-level administrative records of applicants to the Mothers' Pension program - the first government-sponsored welfare program in the United States (1911-1935) - and matched them to census, WWII, and death records. Male children of accepted applicants lived one year longer than those of rejected mothers. They also obtained one-third more years of schooling, were less likely to be underweight, and had higher income in adulthood than children of rejected mothers.

Url: http://pubs.aeaweb.org.ezp1.lib.umn.edu/doi/pdfplus/10.1257/aer.20140529

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Authors: Aizer, Anna; Eli, Shari; Ferrie, Joseph; Lleras-Muney, Adriana

Periodical (Full): American Economic Review

Issue: 4

Volume: 106

Pages: 935-972

Data Collections: IPUMS USA, IPUMS USA - Ancestry Full Count Data

Topics: Education, Family and Marriage, Health, Labor Force and Occupational Structure, Poverty and Welfare

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