The Long-Run Impact of Cash Transfers to Poor Families

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Aizer, Anna; Eli, Shari; Ferrie, Joseph; Lleras-Muney, Adriana
• 署名单位: Brown University; National Bureau of Economic Research; University of Toronto; Northwestern University; University of California System; University of California Los Angeles
• 刊物名称: AMERICAN ECONOMIC REVIEW
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0002-8282
• DOI: 10.1257/aer.20140529
• 发表日期: 2016
• 页码: 935-+
• 关键词: great-depression; HEALTH; mortality; origins; TECHNOLOGY; EMPLOYMENT; applicants; childhood; earnings; outcomes

摘要

We estimate the long-run impact - of cash transfers to poor families on children's longevity, educational attainment, nutritional slams, and income in adulthood. To do so, we collected individual-level administrative records of applicants to the Mothers' Pension program the first government-sponsored welfare program in the United States (1911-1935) and matched them to census, WWII, and death records. Male children of accepted applicants lived one year longer than those of rejected mothers. They also obtained onethird more years of schooling, were less likely to he underweight, and had higher income in adulthood than children of rejected mothers.