Understanding the Effects of Workfare Policies on Child Human Capital

• 成果类型: Article; Early Access
• 署名作者: Rodriguez, Jorge
• 署名单位: Universidad de los Andes - Chile
• 刊物名称: JOURNAL OF LABOR ECONOMICS
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0734-306X
• DOI: 10.1086/718564
• 发表日期: 2023
• 关键词: income-tax credit; maternal employment; welfare; care; LABOR; PROGRAMS; parents; models; IMPACT

摘要

Workfare can impact child development by inducing parents to spend less time at home. I study the mechanisms by which workfare policies affect children using the New Hope workfare experiment. The program randomly assigned individuals to a policy bundle including income and childcare subsidies conditional on full-time work. For families with young children, the program had positive effects on child academic performance and classroom behavior. Counterfactual experiments from a dynamic discrete choice model indicate that most of the effect of New Hope on young children is explained by parents enrolling their children in center-based childcare.