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Welfare, the Family, and Reproductive Behavior

Report of a Meeting

John Haaga and Robert A. Moffitt, editors

Committee on Population

Board on Children, Youth, and Families

Commission on Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education

National Research Council and Institute of Medicine

NATIONAL ACADEMY PRESS
Washington, DC
1998

Suggested Citation:"Front Matter." Institute of Medicine and National Research Council. 1998. Welfare, the Family, and Reproductive Behavior: Report of a Meeting. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/6001.
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NOTICE: The project that is the subject of this report was approved by the Governing Board of the National Research Council, whose members are drawn from the councils of the National Academy of Sciences, the National Academy of Engineering, and the Institute of Medicine. The members of the committee responsible for the report were chosen for their special competences and with regard for appropriate balance.

This report has been reviewed by a group other than the authors according to procedures approved by a Report Review Committee consisting of members of the National Academy of Sciences, the National Academy of Engineering, and the Institute of Medicine.

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Suggested Citation:"Front Matter." Institute of Medicine and National Research Council. 1998. Welfare, the Family, and Reproductive Behavior: Report of a Meeting. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/6001.
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COMMITTEE ON POPULATION

RONALD D. LEE (Chair),

Departments of Demography and Economics, University of California, Berkeley

CAROLINE H. BLEDSOE,

Department of Anthropology, Northwestern University

JOHN BONGAARTS,

The Population Council, New York

JOHN B. CASTERLINE,

The Population Council, New York

LINDA G. MARTIN,

RAND, Santa Monica, California

JANE MENKEN,

Institute of Behavioral Science, University of Colorado, Boulder

ROBERT A. MOFFITT,

Department of Economics, Brown University

MARK R. MONTGOMERY,

Department of Economics, State University of New York, Stony Brook, and The Population Council, New York

W. HENRY MOSLEY,

Department of Population Dynamics, Johns Hopkins University

JAMES P. SMITH,

RAND, Santa Monica, California

BETH J. SOLDO,

Department of Demography, Georgetown University

MARTA TIENDA,

Population Research Center, University of Chicago

AMY O. TSUI,

Carolina Population Center, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

JOHN HAAGA, Director

BARNEY COHEN, Senior Program Officer

LATANYA JOHNSON, Senior Project Assistant

JOEL ROSENQUIST, Senior Project Assistant (until May 1997)

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BOARD ON CHILDREN, YOUTH, AND FAMILIES

JACK P. SHONKOFF (Chair),

Heller Graduate School, Brandeis University

DAVID V.B. BRITT,

Children's Television Workshop, New York

LARRY BUMPASS,

Center for Demography and Ecology, University of Wisconsin

FERNANDO A. GUERRA,

San Antonio Metropolitan Health District, Texas

BERNARD GUYER,

Department of Maternal and Child Health, Johns Hopkins University

ALETHA C. HUSTON,

Department of Human Ecology, University of Texas, Austin

RENEE R. JENKINS,

Department of Pediatrics and Child Health, Howard University Hospital

SARA McLANAHAN,

Office of Population Research, Princeton University

ROBERT MICHAEL,

Harris Graduate School of Public Policy Studies, University of Chicago

PAUL NEWACHECK,

Institute of Health Policy Studies and Department of Pediatrics, University of California, San Francisco

MARTHA PHILLIPS,

The Concord Coalition, Washington, DC

JULIUS B. RICHMOND,

Department of Social Medicine, Harvard University Medical School

TIMOTHY M. SANDOS,

TCI Central, Inc., Denver

DEBORAH STIPEK,

Graduate School of Education, University of California, Los Angeles

DIANA TAYLOR,

Women's Health Program, Department of Family Health Care Nursing, University of California, San Francisco

GAIL WILENSKY,

Project Hope, Bethesda, Maryland

EVAN CHARNEY,

Council, Institute of Medicine

(liaison member)

RUTH T. GROSS,

Board on Health Promotion and Disease Prevention, Institute of Medicine

(liaison member)

ELEANOR E. MACCOBY,

Commission on Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education

(liaison member)

DEBORAH A. PHILLIPS, Director

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WORKSHOP PARTICIPANTS

Christine Bachrach,

National Institute of Child Health and Human Development

Rebecca Blank,

Northwestern University

Christopher Botsko,

Child Trends

Larry Bumpass,

University of Wisconsin

Lindsay Chase-Lansdale,

University of Chicago

Andrew Cherlin,

Johns Hopkins University

Thomas Corbett,

University of Wisconsin

Phoebe Cottingham,

Rockefeller Foundation

Janet Currie,

University of California, Los Angeles

William Darity,

University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

Jacqueline Darroch,

Alan Guttmacher Institute

William Dickens,

Brookings Institution

Gregory Duncan,

Northwestern University

Jennifer Eichberger,

Brookings Institution

Kristina Hanson,

Kaiser Family Foundation

Ronald Haskins,

Subcommittee on Human Resources, House Ways and Means Committee, U.S. Congress

Wade Horn,

National Fatherhood Initiative

Joseph Hotz,

University of Chicago

Kelleen Kaye,

U.S. Department of Health and Human Services

Jacob Klerman,

RAND, Santa Monica, California

Elisa Koff,

U.S. Department of Health and Human Services

Ronald Lee,

University of California, Berkeley

Daniel Lichter,

Pennsylvania State University

Rebecca Maynard,

University of Pennsylvania

Robert Moffitt,

Johns Hopkins University

Donald Oellerich,

U.S. Department of Health and Human Services

William O'Hare,

Annie E. Casey Foundation

June O'Neill,

Congressional Budget Office

Wendell Primus,

U.S. Department of Health and Human Services

William Raub,

U.S. Department of Health and Human Services

Howard Rolston,

U.S. Department of Health and Human Services

Anne Rosewater,

U.S. Department of Health and Human Services

Isabel Sawhill,

Urban Institute

Susanne Stoiber,

U.S. Department of Health and Human Services

Cathy Trost,

Casey Journalism Center for Children and Families

Alan Yaffe,

U.S. Department of Health and Human Services

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Acknowledgments

This report summarizes presentations and discussions at the Workshop on Effects of Welfare on Reproductive Behavior and the Family, organized by the Committee on Population and the Board on Children, Youth, and Families of the National Research Council and the Institute of Medicine, in Washington, DC, May 2–3, 1996. Some of the papers prepared for the workshop will be published in revised form in an edited volume by the National Academy Press. The workshop was funded by the Annie E. Casey Foundation and by the Kellogg Fund of the Governing Board of the National Academy of Sciences, the National Academy of Engineering, and the Institute of Medicine.

Robert Moffitt of the Johns Hopkins University, a member of both the Committee on Population and the Commission on Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education, led the planning for the workshop and chaired it. John Haaga, director of the Committee on Population, led the staff work and served as rapporteur at the workshop. The committee and the board are very grateful to Michael Laracy and William O'Hare of the Annie E. Casey Foundation for their encouragement and intellectual input, and to Deborah Phillips, director of the Board on Children, Youth, and Families, for her suggestions. Anne Bridgman and Faith Mitchell gave an early draft of this summary a careful reading and made many useful comments. Joel Rosenquist of the Committee on Population staff provided superb assistance throughout, both in organizing the workshop and in handling successive changes to the manuscript. Trang Ta and LaTanya Johnson guided the manuscript through later stages.

Most of all, of course, we are grateful to all the participants in the workshop

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whose ideas and comments are summarized here, and we hope that this publication helps ensure that their work contributes to the national debate on the continuing effort toward welfare reform.

RONALD D. LEE, CHAIR

COMMITTEE ON POPULATION

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The design of welfare programs in an era of reform and devolution to the states must take into account the likely effects of programs on demographic behavior. In the past, most research on welfare has examined labor market issues, although there have also been some important evaluations of the effects of Aid to Families with Dependent Children on out-of-wedlock childbearing. Much less information is available on other issues equally central to the debate, including effects on abortion decisions, marriage and divorce, intrafamily relations, household formation, and living arrangements. This book of papers contains reviews and syntheses of existing evidence bearing on the demographic impacts of welfare and ideas for how to evaluate new state-level reforms.

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