Welfare Background, Attitudes, and Employment among New Mothers

Greenwell, Lisa; Leibowitz, Arleen; Klerman, Jacob Alex

doi:10.2307/353450

Cited by 15 publications

(12 citation statements)

References 26 publications

Supporting

Mentioning

Contrasting

Order By: Relevance

“…The attitudes in a community may represent the types of pressures an individual may be exposed to when discussing future family behaviors with others (Rankin & Quane, 2000;South & Baumer, 2000;Upchurch, Aneshensel, Sucoff, & Levy-Storms, 1999). These attitudes also may represent the kinds of advice and information an individual might receive through a social network that includes neighbors (Greenwell, Leibowitz, & Klerman, 1998). Even if neighbors do not offer direct advice or information, individuals may anticipate how their actions may be evaluated based on neighbors' attitudes.…”

Section: Attitudes To Family Behaviorsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Neighbors and neighborhoods: effects on marriage timing

Yabiku

2006

Popul Res Policy Rev

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

Studies of neighborhoods can benefit from data and theoretical frameworks that allow them to examine the differences between neighborhoods and neighbors. Without this distinction, it is unclear if it is characteristics of the people or the place that are associated with individual outcomes. Using data from the Chitwan Valley Family Study, I explore the differences between neighbors and neighborhoods and their associations with marriage timing. I hypothesize three mechanisms whereby neighbors influence individuals: information sharing, social modeling, and sanctions and rewards among a close primary residential group. I explore three domains in which these mechanisms are likely to operate: education, media consumption, and attitudes. Results indicate that when neighbors have attitudes favoring later marriage and being single, marriage rates decrease, even when controlling for measures that describe the neighborhood’s access to important resources in the form of institutions and services. Copyright Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2006Marriage, Neighborhoods, Neighbors, Nepal, Social change,

show abstract

Section: Attitudes To Family Behaviorsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Neighbors and neighborhoods: effects on marriage timing

Yabiku

2006

Popul Res Policy Rev

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

show abstract

“…Greenwell et al (1998), for example, present evidence for the United States that individuals' "willingness to use welfare" is not related to their employment outcomes.…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 97%

“…In order for the welfare culture model to find support in the data it must be the case that, first, welfare receipt alters the work-welfare attitudes of parents and/or their children and second, that these attitudes are related to subsequent outcomes. While there is some evidence that welfare receipt is related to psycho-social characteristics like self-esteem (Elliott, 1996) or locus of control (Gottschalk, 2005), it is less clear that people's beliefs or values can be linked across generations or that they can be linked to their subsequent welfare receipt (Greenwell et al, 1998;Edwards et al, 2001;Bartholomae et al, 2004).…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Cultural Transmission of Work-Welfare Attitudes and the Intergenerational Correlation in Welfare Receipt

Cobb‐Clark

Erkal

2008

SSRN Journal

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

Standard-Nutzungsbedingungen:Die Dokumente auf EconStor dürfen zu eigenen wissenschaftlichen Zwecken und zum Privatgebrauch gespeichert und kopiert werden.Sie dürfen die Dokumente nicht für öffentliche oder kommerzielle Zwecke vervielfältigen, öffentlich ausstellen, öffentlich zugänglich machen, vertreiben oder anderweitig nutzen.Sofern die Verfasser die Dokumente unter Open-Content-Lizenzen (insbesondere CC-Lizenzen) zur Verfügung gestellt haben sollten, gelten abweichend von diesen Nutzungsbedingungen die in der dort genannten Lizenz gewährten Nutzungsrechte. The Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) in Bonn is a local and virtual international research center and a place of communication between science, politics and business. IZA is an independent nonprofit organization supported by Deutsche Post World Net. The center is associated with the University of Bonn and offers a stimulating research environment through its international network, workshops and conferences, data service, project support, research visits and doctoral program. IZA engages in (i) original and internationally competitive research in all fields of labor economics, (ii) development of policy concepts, and (iii) dissemination of research results and concepts to the interested public. Terms of use: Documents in D I S C U S S I O N P A P E R S E R I E SIZA Discussion Papers often represent preliminary work and are circulated to encourage discussion. Citation of such a paper should account for its provisional character. A revised version may be available directly from the author. This paper considers the potential for the cultural transmission of attitudes toward work, welfare, and individual responsibility to explain the intergenerational correlation in welfare receipt. Specifically, we investigate whether 18-year olds' views about social benefits and the drivers of social inequality depend on their families' welfare histories. We begin by incorporating welfare receipt into a theoretical model of the cultural transmission of workwelfare attitudes across generations. Consistent with the predictions of our model, we find that young people's attitudes towards work and welfare are shaped by socialization within their families. Young people are more likely to oppose generous social benefits and adopt an internal view of social inequality if their mothers support these views, if their mothers were employed while they were growing up, and if their families never received welfare. These results are consistent with − though do not definitively establish − the existence of an intergenerational welfare culture.JEL Classification: I38, H31, Z1

show abstract

“…Even more importantly, while welfare receipt as a child appears to have an independent effect on the views of young adults regarding the public provision of generous unemployment benefits, it is not at all clear that these norms can be linked to those outcomes which are relevant for welfare receipt. Greenwell, Leibowitz, and Klerman (), for example, present evidence for the United States that individuals' “willingness to use welfare” is not related to their employment outcomes. Given that social assistance is linked to bad outcomes—not bad norms—future research will need to investigate which norms are most relevant for understanding young people's educational, labor market, and health outcomes.…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Welfare Receipt and the Intergenerational Transmission of Work-Welfare Norms*

Barón¹,

Cobb‐Clark²,

Erkal³

2014

Southern Economic Journal

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

This article investigates the role of welfare receipt in shaping norms regarding work and welfare using unique Australian data from the Youth in Focus Project. We begin by incorporating welfare into a theoretical model of the transmission of work‐welfare norms across generations. Consistent with the predictions of this model, we find evidence that youths' attitudes toward work and welfare may be influenced by socialization within their families. Young people are more likely to oppose generous social benefits and to believe that social inequality stems from individual characteristics if (i) their mothers support these views; (ii) their mothers were employed while they were growing up; and (iii) their families never received welfare. Finally, youths' work‐welfare norms appear to be unrelated to their neighbors' welfare receipt suggesting that socialization occurs primarily within families rather than within neighborhoods.

show abstract

Welfare Background, Attitudes, and Employment among New Mothers

Cited by 15 publications

References 26 publications

Neighbors and neighborhoods: effects on marriage timing

Neighbors and neighborhoods: effects on marriage timing

Cultural Transmission of Work-Welfare Attitudes and the Intergenerational Correlation in Welfare Receipt

Welfare Receipt and the Intergenerational Transmission of Work-Welfare Norms*

Contact Info

Product

Resources

About