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Peer reviewedKu, Inhoe; Plotnick, Robert – Demography, 2003
Analyzed whether parents' receipt of welfare affected children's educational attainment in early adulthood, independent of its effect through changing family income. Data from the Panel Study of Income Dynamics indicated that greater exposure to welfare significantly associated with children's poorer educational attainment. Although exposure to…
Descriptors: Educational Attainment, Elementary Secondary Education, Graduation, Low Income Groups
Download full textLong, David; And Others – 1996
This report presents the fourth-year findings on the effectiveness of Ohio's Learning, Earning, and Parenting (LEAP) Program, a statewide welfare initiative that uses financial incentives and penalties to promote school attendance by pregnant and parenting teenagers on welfare. The report looks at LEAP's effects on school completion, employment,…
Descriptors: Attendance, Dropout Programs, Dropouts, Early Parenthood
