Replication data for: The Long-Run Impact of Cash Transfers to Poor Families

Principal Investigator(s):  View help for Principal Investigator(s) Anna Aizer; Shari Eli; Joseph Ferrie; Adriana Lleras-Muney

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Project Description

Summary:  View help for Summary We estimate the long-run impact of cash transfers to poor families on children's longevity, educational attainment, nutritional status, and income in adulthood. To do so, we collected individual- level administrative records of applicants to the Mothers' Pension program -- the first government-sponsored welfare program in the United States (1911-1935) -- and matched them to census, WWII, and death records. Male children of accepted applicants lived one year longer than those of rejected mothers. They also obtained one-third more years of schooling, were less likely to be underweight, and had higher income in adulthood than children of rejected mothers. (JEL I12, I14, I18, I32, I38, J16, N32)

Scope of Project

JEL Classification:  View help for JEL Classification
      I12 Health Behavior
      I14 Health and Inequality
      I18 Health: Government Policy; Regulation; Public Health
      I32 Measurement and Analysis of Poverty
      I38 Welfare, Well-Being, and Poverty: Government Programs; Provision and Effects of Welfare Programs
      J16 Economics of Gender; Non-labor Discrimination
      N32 Economic History: Labor and Consumers, Demography, Education, Health, Welfare, Income, Wealth, Religion, and Philanthropy: U.S.; Canada: 1913-


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