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The Causal Effects of Education on Welfare Participation in the US
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Kämpfen, Fabrice – Education Economics, 2021
This study provides new evidence on the long-term impact of education on welfare participation in the US. I exploit historical changes in child labor laws as an instrumental variable for education to estimate the causal effects of education on the probability of receiving social welfare benefits. I find large and statistically significant negative…
Descriptors: Welfare Services, Welfare Recipients, Outcomes of Education, Child Labor