Premarital Childbearing and Welfare Receipt: The Role of Mothers' Receipt
利用1968-91年PSID数据，研究母亲领取AFDC福利与女儿婚前生育及福利领取的关系，发现黑人家庭中福利领取存在代际传递，但婚前生育并非主要中介变量；非黑人样本量不足，无法得出可靠结论。
This study uses the 1968-91 Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID) to examine the relationship between mothers' receipt of Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC) welfare benefits and their daughters' premarital childbearing and welfare receipt. The results for black females suggest that black daughters from welfare-recipient households were more likely to become adult welfare recipients than were black daughters from non-welfare-recipient households, but that there was only a weak relationship between mothers' welfare receipt and daughters' premarital childbearing. These results suggest that premarital childbearing was not an important variable mediating intergenerational transmission of welfare use in black families. Other results call into question previous findings using PSID data that suggest the existence of intergenerational welfare transmission among non-blacks. Specifically, it appears that the sample of non-black daughters in the PSID is insufficient to provide a satisfactory answer to the question of welfare transmission for that group.