PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Bitler, Marianne P.
AU  - Gelbach, Jonah B.
AU  - Hoynes, Hilary W.
TI  - Welfare Reform and Children's Living Arrangements
AID  - 10.3368/jhr.XLI.1.1
DP  - 2006 Jan 01
TA  - Journal of Human Resources
PG  - 1--27
VI  - XLI
IP  - 1
4099  - http://jhr.uwpress.org/content/XLI/1/1.short
4100  - http://jhr.uwpress.org/content/XLI/1/1.full
SO  - J Hum Resour2006 Jan 01; XLI
AB  - Little is known about welfare reform's effects on family structure and children's living arrangements, an important focus for reformers. Using March CPS data, we find that state welfare waivers are associated with children being less likely to live with unmarried parents, more likely to live with married parents, and more likely to live with neither parent. Children living with neither parent are living with grandparents or other relatives, or rarely, in foster care. The estimates vary somewhat by children's race and ethnicity. Due to the limited variation in TANF's implementation timing across states, we focus on the waiver results.