Robins Philip K
Department of Economics, University of Miami, Coral Gables, FL 33124, USA.
Eval Rev. 2007 Oct;31(5):440-68. doi: 10.1177/0193841X07303867.
This article examines the employment and child care responses of families participating in 10 experimental welfare reform programs conducted in the United States between 1989 and 2002. For the programs analyzed, child care use increases by about the same amount as the increase in employment. Most of the increased child care comprises informal care by a relative, particularly care by a sibling or a grandparent. Although there are significant differences in the child care responses across the various programs tested, there are no significant differences in the impacts for persons leaving welfare versus persons staying on welfare.
本文考察了参与1989年至2002年间在美国实施的10项福利改革实验项目的家庭的就业和儿童保育应对情况。对于所分析的项目，儿童保育的使用增加量与就业的增加量大致相同。增加的儿童保育大多包括亲属提供的非正式照料，尤其是兄弟姐妹或祖父母提供的照料。尽管在所测试的各个项目中，儿童保育应对情况存在显著差异，但对于离开福利项目的人和留在福利项目中的人而言，影响并无显著差异。
