Return-Path: <nifl-povracelit@literacy.nifl.gov> Received: from literacy (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by literacy.nifl.gov (8.10.2/8.10.2) with SMTP id f1RLcI906755; Tue, 27 Feb 2001 16:38:18 -0500 (EST) Date: Tue, 27 Feb 2001 16:38:18 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: <003f01c0a105$2b757400$23bffea9@hppav> Errors-To: listowner@literacy.nifl.gov Reply-To: nifl-povracelit@literacy.nifl.gov Originator: nifl-povracelit@literacy.nifl.gov Sender: nifl-povracelit@literacy.nifl.gov Precedence: bulk From: "Mary Ann Corley" <macorley1@earthlink.net> To: Multiple recipients of list <nifl-povracelit@literacy.nifl.gov> Subject: [NIFL-POVRACELIT:421] JCPR Working Papers X-Listprocessor-Version: 6.0c -- ListProcessor by Anastasios Kotsikonas X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4522.1200 Status: O Content-Length: 5730 Lines: 107 FYI: The Joint Center for Poverty Research has announced the following working papers, available on-line. Following the working papers summaries is a summary of a policy brief on Earned Income Tax Credit in Illinois. -Mary Ann Corley ************************* Working Papers: a. Immigrants and Wealth Stratification In The U.S - Lingxin Hao This study examines the importance of including immigrants in studies of wealth stratification by race-ethnicity in the United States. The descriptive analysis shows greater differences in wealth distribution, zero and negative wealth holdings, wealth components, and age-wealth profiles by race-ethnicity than by immigrant status. The age-wealth profiles are steeper for immigrants than for the native-born when "wealth age" is used. The multivariate analysis uses a framework integrating life cycle theory, status attainment theory, human capital theory, and theories related to social contexts. This study finds a positive effect of immigrant status on wealth accumulation, in contrast to the impairing effects of race-ethnic minorities. Immigrants' migration and adaptation history also plays a role in their wealth accumulation. Implications for social stratification, spatial segregation, and immigrant assimilation are discussed. http://www.jcpr.org/wp/WPprofile.cfm?ID=235 b. Child Support Enforcement: Incentives and Well-Being - Irwin Garfinkel, Theresa Heintze, Chien-Chung Huang Economic theory suggests that enforcement of private child support obligations will decrease the labor supply of mothers who are not potential welfare recipients, increase the labor supply of mothers who are potential welfare recipients, increase the labor supply of fathers, decrease non-marital births, and increase or decrease divorce and remarriage of both parents. This paper reviews and synthesizes existing literature on these behavioral effects and presents new empirical evidence on the effects of stronger enforcement on the incomes of mothers and their children. http://www.jcpr.org/wp/WPprofile.cfm?ID=234 c. The Earned Income Tax Credit and Labor Market Participation of Families on Welfare - V. Joseph Hotz, Charles H. Mullin, John Karl Scholz In this paper the authors examine the effect of the EITC on the employment rates of adults who received welfare (AFDC) during the 1990s. The first part of the paper begins with a description of the changes in the EITC over the last ten years, its administration, and what is known about its welfare policy changes, earned income tax credit (EITC) increases in 1990 and 1993, and changes in local labor market conditions on the behavior of families who received welfare benefits in California during the early part of the 1990s. The authors use a variety of county-level labor market indicators to account for the influence that the local labor market had on the employment rates of heads of households in the CWPDP sample. http://www.jcpr.org/wp/WPprofile.cfm?ID=233 d. Determinants and Consequences of Child Care Subsidy Receipt by Low-Income Families - David Blau, Erdal Tekin This paper provides an early analysis of child care subsidies under welfare reform. We review the literature on child care subsidies and discuss the potential for such subsidies to be an effective part of the effort to make low-income families economically self-sufficient. Previous studies of child care subsidies use data from the pre-welfare-reform period, and we discuss the potential difficulties in drawing inferences from those studies that can be applied to the very different post-reform environment. The authors use the data to address two issues. First, how do household characteristics and state subsidy rules and expenditure affect the likelihood of receiving a subsidy? Key household characteristics include family size and structure, and past participation in welfare. Second, how does subsidy receipt affect employment and welfare participation? http://www.jcpr.org/wp/WPprofile.cfm?ID=232 e. Welfare Reform and Child Well-being - Greg J. Duncan, P. Lindsay Chase-Lansdale In this paper the authors sort through conflicting theory and evidence regarding the impacts of welfare reform on children's well-being and development. Their conclusions regarding likely child impacts depend crucially on the ages of the children studied. In the case of elementary-school children, the picture is fairly positive. There is strong evidence that welfare reform can be a potent force for enhancing achievement and positive behavior. When welfare reform packages do not appear to help younger children, there is little evidence of harm, even in the one experiment with time limits. If anything, the beneficial impacts are strongest for children in families with longer histories of welfare receipt. On the other hand, in the case of adolescents, more limited evidence suggests that welfare reforms may cause detrimental increases in school problems and risky behavior. The jury is still out on impacts on infants and toddlers. http://www.jcpr.org/wp/WPprofile.cfm?ID=236 New Policy Brief in the Illinois state Earned Income Tax Credit The Joint Center for Poverty Research and Illinois State Representative Barbara Flynn Currie (D) and Illinois State Senator William E. Peterson (R) co-sponsosred a one-day legislative research briefing February 2, 2001, on progress among states, and especially Illinois, in implementing state EITCs. This JCPR Policy Brief reports on the findings of that briefing, focusing on Illinois's income tax system and the effects of the federal EITC on work and marriage among low-income mothers, and also presents an overview of various state EITC plans. http://www.jcpr.org/policybriefs/vol3_num1.html
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