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From page 16... ... Horn called attention to the great differences in the emphases of social science research on coresident fathers and on absent fathers: there is interest in whether the coresident fathers help with child care and how well, whereas absent fathers are interesting only insofar as they have money and transfer some of it to the mother. The message seems to be "If you're in the home, pay attention; if you're out of it, just pay." Given the large and growing number of absent fathers, Horn believes more research is needed on what they do to help with childrearing and how programs and policy could encourage a larger contribution. Read the entire page →
From page 17... ... Many states reduced the 100-hour rule restricting work levels of earners in AFDC-UP families, and other states extended eligibility to families with more spotty employment histories than had heretofore been the case. These reforms are aimed at increasing provision of benefits to married couples and hence indirectly have demographic effects. Read the entire page →
From page 18... ... The welfare reform debate does not end with the passage of federal legislation, nor even with the first round of changes at the state level. Moffitt distinguished between the academic studies (typically analyses of individual-level data from panel surveys that compare sample households in different states over time) Read the entire page →
From page 19... ... Currie noted that newly available data from the National Longitudinal Survey Child-Mother File will allow long-term studies of effects of childhood participation in AFDC, food stamps, Medicaid, and WIC, with representative samples, if continued waves of the panel study are funded. Another approach to data collection at a national level is adding supplementary questions to panel studies that contain information about welfare participation from previous rounds, as was done for a 1995 supplement to the Panel Study of Income Dynamics. Read the entire page →

From page 16...

... Horn called attention to the great differences in the emphases of social science research on coresident fathers and on absent fathers: there is interest in whether the coresident fathers help with child care and how well, whereas absent fathers are interesting only insofar as they have money and transfer some of it to the mother. The message seems to be "If you're in the home, pay attention; if you're out of it, just pay." Given the large and growing number of absent fathers, Horn believes more research is needed on what they do to help with childrearing and how programs and policy could encourage a larger contribution.

Read the entire page →

From page 17...

... Many states reduced the 100-hour rule restricting work levels of earners in AFDC-UP families, and other states extended eligibility to families with more spotty employment histories than had heretofore been the case. These reforms are aimed at increasing provision of benefits to married couples and hence indirectly have demographic effects.

Read the entire page →

From page 18...

... The welfare reform debate does not end with the passage of federal legislation, nor even with the first round of changes at the state level. Moffitt distinguished between the academic studies (typically analyses of individual-level data from panel surveys that compare sample households in different states over time)

Read the entire page →

From page 19...

... Currie noted that newly available data from the National Longitudinal Survey Child-Mother File will allow long-term studies of effects of childhood participation in AFDC, food stamps, Medicaid, and WIC, with representative samples, if continued waves of the panel study are funded. Another approach to data collection at a national level is adding supplementary questions to panel studies that contain information about welfare participation from previous rounds, as was done for a 1995 supplement to the Panel Study of Income Dynamics.

Read the entire page →

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Research and Evaluation Needs Pages 16-19

Research and Evaluation Needs
Pages 16-19