Working Paper

The impact of AFDC on birth decisions and program participation

Abstract: A longitudinal study examining how the level of AFDC benefits and the per-child increment affect births. Although the findings support the \"AFDC benefits cause births\" hypothesis, the author shows that eliminating the new-birth increment would reduce total program costs by less than 3 percent, since both the per-dollar effect of benefits on births and the per-child increments themselves are small.

Bibliographic Information

Provider: Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland

Part of Series: Working Papers (Old Series)

Publication Date: 1994

Number: 9408