Intergenerational Effects of Welfare Reform: Adolescent Delinquent and Risky Behaviors

Research reported in this publication was supported by the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health & Human Development of the National Institutes of Health under Award Number R01HD086223 and by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation through its support of the Child Health Institute of New Jersey at Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, Rutgers University (grants 67038 and 74260). The content is solely the responsibility of the authors and does not necessarily represent the official views of the National Institutes of Health or the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. The authors are grateful to Elizabeth Lower-Basch for valuable input; Karen Conway, Jeff DeSimone, Daniel Grossman, Brady Horn, Brad Humphries, Joseph Sabia, Orgul Ozturk, and Nicholas Anthony Wright for helpful comments, to the staff at the University of Michigan’s NADHAP for their data and technical help, and Michael Papotto for excellent research assistance. The views expressed herein are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Bureau of Economic Research.

• February 13, 2019