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abstract: 'This paper assesses the impact of welfare reform''s parental work
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requirements on low-income children''s cognitive and social-emotional
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development. The identification strategy exploits an important feature
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of the work requirement rules-namely, age-of-youngest-child
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exemptions-as a source of quasi-experimental variation in first-year
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maternal employment. The 1996 welfare reform law empowered states to
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exempt adult recipients from the work requirements until the youngest
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child reaches a certain age. This led to substantial variation in the
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amount of time that mothers can remain home with a newborn child. I use
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this variation to estimate the impact of work-requirement-induced
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increases in maternal employment. Using a sample of infants from the
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Birth cohort of the Early Childhood Longitudinal Study, the reduced form
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and instrumental variables estimates reveal sizable negative effects of
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maternal employment. An auxiliary analysis of mechanisms finds that
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working mothers experience an increase in depressive symptoms, and are
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less likely to breastfeed and read to their children. In addition, such
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children are exposed to nonparental child care arrangements at a younger
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age, and they spend more time in these settings throughout the first
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year of life. (C) 2016 by the Association for Public Policy Analysis and
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Management.'
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affiliation: 'Herbst, CM (Corresponding Author), Arizona State Univ, Sch Publ Affairs,
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411 N Cent Ave,Suite 420, Phoenix, AZ 85004 USA.
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Herbst, Chris M., Arizona State Univ, Sch Publ Affairs, 411 N Cent Ave,Suite 420,
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Phoenix, AZ 85004 USA.'
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author: Herbst, Chris M.
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author-email: chris.herbst@asu.edu
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author_list:
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- family: Herbst
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given: Chris M.
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da: '2023-09-28'
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doi: 10.1002/pam.21971
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eissn: 1520-6688
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files: []
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issn: 0276-8739
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journal: JOURNAL OF POLICY ANALYSIS AND MANAGEMENT
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keywords-plus: 'EARLY MATERNAL EMPLOYMENT; INCOME-TAX CREDIT; CARE SUBSIDIES; SINGLE
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MOTHERS; LABOR-MARKET; REFORM; IMPACT; HEALTH; POLICY; PARTICIPATION'
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language: English
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month: SPR
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number: '2'
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number-of-cited-references: '66'
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pages: 327+
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papis_id: 037246a37c58e2be7f7f0498a100bec7
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ref: Herbst2017areparental
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times-cited: '14'
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title: Are Parental Welfare Work Requirements Good for Disadvantaged Children? Evidence
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From Age-of-Youngest-Child Exemptions
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2023-10-01 08:15:07 +00:00
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type: article
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unique-id: WOS:000396742600005
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usage-count-last-180-days: '1'
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usage-count-since-2013: '14'
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volume: '36'
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web-of-science-categories: Economics; Public Administration
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year: '2017'
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