Intergenerational Transmission of Dependence on Income Support: Patterns, Causation and Implications for Australian Social Policy

该项目探讨了在收入支持家庭中长大的后果。 第一阶段描述父母和子女收入支助收据之间的关系，以确定这些儿童是否更有可能自己获得收入支助方案。 第二阶段确定的因果机制，通过父母的收入支持收据影响儿童的结果。 确定这些传导机制是制定旨在打破任何福利依赖循环的政策的必要的第一步。 该项目创新性地使用了调查数据，这些数据与独特的行政数据相结合，将大约53 000名澳大利亚年轻人及其父母的收入支助记录联系起来。

This project examines the consequences of growing up in an income-support family. The first stage describes the relationship between parents' and children's income-support receipt to determine whether these children are more likely to access income-support programs themselves. Stage 2 identifies the causal mechanisms through which parental income-support receipt influences children's outcomes. Identification of these transmission mechanisms is a necessary first step in formulating policies targeted towards breaking any cycle of welfare dependence. This project is innovative in its use of survey data merged to unique administrative data that link the income-support records of some 53,000 young Australians and their parents.