TY  - JOUR
AU  - Borjas,George J.
AU  - Sueyoshi,Glenn T.
TI  - Ethnicity and the Intergenerational Transmission of Welfare Dependency
JF  - National Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper Series
VL  - No. 6175
PY  - 1997
Y2  - September 1997
UR  - http://www.nber.org/papers/w6175
L1  - http://www.nber.org/papers/w6175.pdf
N1  - Author contact info:
George J. Borjas
Harvard Kennedy School
79 JFK Street
Cambridge, MA 02138
Tel: 617/495-1393
Fax: 617/495-9532
E-Mail: gborjas@harvard.edu
AB  - There exist sizeable differences in the incidence and duration of welfare spells across ethnic groups, and these differences tend to persist across generations.  Using the National Longitudinal Surveys of Youth, we find that children raised in welfare households are themselves more likely to become welfare recipients for longer durations.  We also show that growing up in an ethnic environment characterized by welfare dependency has a significant effect on both the incidence and duration of welfare spells.  About 80 percent of the difference in welfare participation rates between two ethnic groups in the parental generation is transmitted to the children.
ER  -