Welfare and the Well-Being of Children

儿童福利和福祉

• 批准号: 9122640
• 负责人: Janet Currie
• 金额: $ 8.72万
• 依托单位: National Bureau of Economic Research Inc
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 1992
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 1992-02-01 至 1995-01-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=9122640&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Welfare; Well; Being; Children

A primary goal of transfer programs to the non-aged, non-disabled poor in the U.S. is to improve the well-being of children in poor families. In the past, most of the research which has been devoted to the study of these welfare programs focuses on the incentive effects of the programs for parents rather than on the question of whether the parents' participation in such programs measurably benefits children. Given the large amounts spent on these transfer programs, an assessment of the direct effects of parental participation on children is called for. This project will examine the relationship between a mother's participation in AFDC, the Food Stamp Program, and public housing, and various measures of her child's well-being. These measures will include the child's birth weight, growth, health, and psychological and cognitive test scores. The study will take advantage of the availability of a new data set which links a mother's welfare participation to these measures of her child's well-being: the National Longitudinal survey of Youth Merged Child-Mother File.

转移支付方案的一个主要目标是向非老年、非残疾的穷人提供援助， 是为了改善贫困家庭儿童的福利。 在过去的研究中， 这些福利计划的重点是激励效果的 而不是父母的问题， 参加这些方案对儿童有很大的好处。 鉴于 在这些转移计划上花费了大量资金， 需要父母的参与对儿童产生直接影响。 这个项目将研究母亲的 参与AFDC、食品券计划和公共住房， 她孩子的各种健康状况 这些措施将包括 儿童的出生体重、生长、健康和心理， 认知测试分数 这项研究将利用 提供一套新的数据，将母亲的福利 参加这些措施的权利：国家 青年儿童-母亲合并档案纵向调查。