Publication Type
Journal Article
Version
submittedVersion
Publication Date
4-2015
Abstract
The 1996 Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act (PRWORA; Pub. L. 104-193) in the United States aimed at encouraging work among low-income mothers with children below age 18. In this study, the author used a sample of 2,843 intergenerational family observations from the Health and Retirement Study to estimate the effects of the reform on single grandmothers who are related to those mothers. The results suggest that the reform decreased time transfers but increased money transfers from grandmothers. The results are consistent with an intergenerational family support network where higher child care subsidies motivated the family to shift away from grandmother provided child care and where grandmothers increased money transfers to either help cover the remaining cost of formal care or to partly compensate for the loss in benefits of welfare leavers.
Keywords
child care, evaluation, family policies, fragile families, grandparents, welfare
Discipline
Labor Economics | Public Policy
Research Areas
Applied Microeconomics
Publication
Journal of Marriage and Family
Volume
77
Issue
2
First Page
407
Last Page
423
ISSN
0022-2445
Identifier
10.1111/jomf.12172
Publisher
Wiley
Citation
HO, Christine.
Welfare-to-Work Reform and Intergenerational Support: Grandmothers' Response to the 1996 PRWORA. (2015). Journal of Marriage and Family. 77, (2), 407-423.
Available at: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/soe_research/1775
Copyright Owner and License
Authors
Creative Commons License
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Additional URL
https://doi.org/10.1111/jomf.12172