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When and for Whom Does Welfare Have Long-Term Impacts
Pages 11-16

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From page 11...
... But concerns about the cletrimental effects of welfare for chill Wren are also a prominent aspect of tociay's debates, particularly insofar as they involve tong-term and intergenerational effects. Speculations about the mechanisms that account for possible long-term effects of welfare receipt focus primarily on the transmission of expectations regarding adult roles and access tO resources that facilitate the attainment of economic inclependence.
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From page 13...
... the relationship between state AFDC benefit levels and rates of nonmarital chitcibearing among young women on AFDC, using data from eight birth cohorts of women in the National l~ongitu(linal Survey of Youth. Like other investigators who have stuclied this relation ship, he found iittIe evidence connecting average AFDC benefits to differential rates of nonmarital fertility in general.
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From page 14...
... Rosenzweig conclucled that early childbearing is most likely to be associated with higher AFDC benefit levels when other potential or actual sources of support, such as monetary donations from parents, are meager. At the same time, Rosenzweig cautioned that welfare generosity alone cannot explain contemporary trends in nonmarital births, and the magnitude of the relationship between welfare and out-of-marriage childbearing is a matter of active debate.
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From page 15...
... Opmenta1 processes cluring the micicIle chilcIhood and acloTescent years may leave chilc3ren vulnerable to long-term negative ef' fects Of welfare receipt? As welfare reform proceeds, how shouIcI policy makers and researchers reformulate questions about how families' economic resources affect the course of chiTciren's clevelopment and future prospects?
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