Welfare Reform, Family Structure, and Child Well-Being

描述(由申请人提供)：拟议的项目使用收入和方案参与度调查(SIPP)和方案动态调查(SPD)的数据来检查1996年前后的福利改革如何影响儿童所在的家庭结构、父母对儿童的行为以及儿童本身。这项研究对这一领域的现有文献有三个主要贡献：1)我们将考察福利政策对广泛的家庭结构结果的影响，超越了对单亲家庭和已婚家庭的简单比较。具体地说，我们把结婚、与亲生父亲同居以及与亲生父亲生活作为我们家庭结构的关键衡量标准。2)我们将审查福利政策对儿童福祉(例如，行为、活动、健康和学业成绩)和育儿行为(例如，对儿童的监测)的影响，这些结果通常没有通过具有全国代表性的数据进行检验。3)我们将使用1994年至1999年的数据，跨越普罗沃拉之前和之后的时代。为此，我们将使用三种类型的模型，将福利政策的变化与家庭结果的变化联系起来：跨州模型、州内模型和家庭内模型。多个模型的使用利用了SIPP和SPD数据，并使我们能够通过几种类型的分析来检查我们结果的稳健性。

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.