NATURALIZATION AND IMMIGRANT PUBLIC ASSISTANCE RECEIPT

描述（改编自申请人摘要）：拟议的研究 有三大目标。首先是评估是否以及在多大程度上 经典的，消极的，或分段同化理论的种类， 最近非老年移民进入 美国最好的解释公民身份和 福利收据在研究的这一部分，他们使用非老年人的数据， 在1996年《个人资料保护法》通过之前进入该国的移民 责任与工作机会协调法（或“福利改革 幕》）。他们的期望是， 同化理论将最好地预测福利接收模式， 按公民身份和居留时间分列的移民人数 全国第二个目标是尽早评估是否 以及现有的证据在多大程度上支持这一推论， 福利改革法案已开始增加入籍人数，改变 其发生的原因，从而可能改变的程度， 归化可以被认为是同化的反映。第三个目标是 重新审视公民身份与福利领取之间的关系 在改革后的时期。在本部分的研究中，为了检验 消极同化观点所预测的模式 将更有可能出现在改革后时期，他们使用的数据， 改革后入籍和改革前移民的福利行为。 因为《福利改革法》引入了一个消极的入籍理由（在 为了获得福利），现在沿着与以前存在的 积极的原因，他们预计改革前的福利收入率 改革后入籍的移民人数超过了 移民谁已经入籍较早，其他一切平等。

DESCRIPTION (Adapted from the Applicant's Abstract): The proposed research has three broad objectives. The first is to assess whether and to what degree classic, negative, or segmented assimilation theories about the kinds of incorporation processes experienced by recent non-elderly immigrants to the United States best account for the relationship between citizenship status and welfare receipt. In this part of the research they use data for non-elderly immigrants who entered the country before the passage in 1996 of the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act (or "Welfare Reform Act"). Their expectation is that hypotheses derived from segmented assimilation theory will best predict patterns of welfare receipt among immigrants disaggregated by citizenship status and duration of time spent in the country. The second objective is to conduct an early assessment of whether and to what degree the available evidence supports the inference that the Welfare Reform Act has begun to increase the number of naturalization, change the reasons for their occurrence, and thus perhaps alter the degree to which naturalization can be assumed to reflect assimilation. The third objective is to reexamine the relationship between citizenship status and welfare receipt in the post-reform period. In this part of the research, in order to test the hypothesis that the pattern predicted by the negative assimilation perspective will be more likely to emerge in the post-reform period, they use data on the post-reform naturalization and welfare behavior of pre-reform immigrants. Because the Welfare Reform Act introduces a negative reason to naturalize (in order to obtain welfare) that now goes along with the previously existing positive reasons, they expect the rate of welfare receipts among pre-reform immigrants who naturalize in the post-reform period to exceed that of immigrants who had naturalized earlier, all else equal.