The Effect of Welfare Reform on Childbirth, Marriage, and Divorce

This dissertation contains two essays on the effect of welfare reform on child- birth, marriage, and divorce. In the first essay, I exploit the cross state variation in welfare reform implementation to identify its effect on birth rates. The results from multinomial logit models suggest that the wel...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Pakdeethai, Pimrak
Other Authors: Ureta, Manuelita
Format: Others
Language:en_US
Published: 2010
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/ETD-TAMU-2009-08-3273