Abstract
Workfare can impact child development by inducing parents to spend less time at home. I study the mechanisms by which workfare policies affect children using the New Hope workfare experiment. The program randomly assigned individuals to a policy bundle including income and childcare subsidies conditional on full-time work. For families with young children, the program had positive effects on child academic performance and classroom behavior. Coun-terfactual experiments from a dynamic discrete choice model indicate that most of the effect of New Hope on young children is explained by parents enrolling their children in center-based childcare.
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 39-75 |
Number of pages | 37 |
Journal | Journal of Labor Economics |
Volume | 41 |
Issue number | 1 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - 15 Nov 2022 |
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