Welfare Reform, Family Structure, and Child Well-Being

描述（由申请人提供）：拟议项目使用来自收入和计划参与调查（SIPP）和计划动态调查（SPD）的数据来研究1996年前后的福利改革如何影响儿童生活的家庭结构、父母对儿童的行为以及儿童本身。本研究对该领域的现有文献做出了三个主要贡献：1)我们将研究福利政策对广泛的家庭结构结果的影响，而不仅仅是对单亲家庭和已婚家庭的简单比较。具体来说，我们把婚姻、两个人住在一起、和亲生父亲住在一起作为衡量家庭结构的关键标准。2)我们将研究福利政策对儿童福祉（例如，行为、活动、健康和学业成绩）和父母行为（例如，对儿童的监控）的影响，这些结果通常没有使用全国代表性数据进行研究。3)我们将使用1994 - 1999年的数据，跨越了prwora之前和之后的时代。在此过程中，我们将采用三种类型的模型，将福利政策的变化与家庭结果的变化联系起来：跨州、州内和家庭内部模型。多个模型的使用利用了SIPP和SPD数据，并允许我们检查跨几种分析类型的结果的稳健性。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The proposed project uses data from the Survey of Income and Program Participation (SIPP) and the Survey of Program Dynamics (SPD) to examine how the pre- and post-1996 welfare reforms affect the family structures in which children live, parental behavior toward children, and children themselves. This research makes three major contributions to the existing literature in this area: 1) We will examine the impact of welfare policies on a wide range of family structure outcomes, moving beyond simple comparisons of single- and married-parent families. Specifically, we focus on marriage, doubling up, and living with a biological father as our key family structure measures. 2) We will examine impacts of welfare policies on child well-being (e.g., behavior, activities, health, and school achievement) and on parenting behavior (e.g., monitoring of children), outcomes that have not typically been examined with nationally-representative data. 3) We will use data from 1994 to 1999, spanning the pre- and post-PRWORA era. In doing so, we will employ three types of models relating changes in welfare policies to changes in family outcomes: across-state, within-state, and within-family models. The use of multiple models draws on both SIPP and SPD data and allows us to examine the robustness of our results across several types of analyses.