| Welfare and Employment Dynamics Using Matched Data |
| Principal
Investigators: |
Daniel Schroeder |
| Sponsor: |
National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, U.S. Department of Agriculture |
| Research
Partners: |
The Johns Hopkins University, The George Washington University |
| Project
Duration: |
November 2005 - July 2009 |
| Description: |
The project will conduct studies of food stamp, welfare and employment dynamics using
matched data from the "Three City Study" and administrative records from various
governmental welfare and employment sources. It has a data collection goal and an
analysis goal. (1) The data collection goal is to gather administrative records from
TANF, Food Stamps, Unemployment Insurance earnings records, and several other
public assistance and social service agencies on the families in the survey, to match them
to the survey, and to develop a restricted use file that could be made available to other
authorized researchers. (2) The analysis goal is to use the matched data to conduct
primary analyses of food stamp, welfare and employment dynamics using state of the art
econometric methods and to conduct a series of additional substantive and
methodological analyses. These additional analyses include a study of methods of
efficient estimation models which use the survey data and the universe of administrative
data; a study of the seam problem in event history surveys; an examination of the effects
of work requirements, time limits and sanctions on welfare use and employment
outcomes; studies of food and financial hardships among families; and studies of welfare
participation of children of immigrants, employment patterns of Latinas, aging low
income mothers, and social service use.
The researchers at the Ray Marshall Center will participate mainly in data collection
tasks, using administrative data from the state of Texas to (1) develop research files
describing families’ food stamp, welfare, and other program experiences and histories of
their UI-covered earnings and (2) linking these data to information from the "Three City
Study." The researchers will also assist with other analysis tasks, as time and interest
allow, and may develop their own analysis projects with the data. |
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