Liu, Haiyong
A Migration Study of Mother's Work, Welfare Participation, and Child Development
Working Paper, Department of Economics, East Carolina University, September 2004.
Also: http://www.ecu.edu/econ/wp/04/migration_welfare_liu.pdf
Cohort(s): Children of the NLSY79
Publisher: Department of Economics, East Carolina University
Keyword(s): Labor Supply; Migration; Mothers and Daughters; Socioeconomic Status (SES); Welfare;

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This paper investigates how women's migration and labor supply behaviors respond to changes in welfare policies and labor market conditions, controlling for endogenous initial residence and unobserved heterogeneity. It also traces out how these responses influence educational inputs and child outcomes. The simulation results show that poor and low-educated single women with children do change their residential locations in response to changes in welfare policies and labor market conditions. The magnitude of this response in the form of migration, however, is modest. More importantly, such policy changes often have large and important impacts on particular at-risk groups.