ABSTRACT

This study provides new evidence on the long-term impact of education on welfare participation in the US. I exploit historical changes in child labor laws as an instrumental variable for education to estimate the causal effects of education on the probability of receiving social welfare benefits. I find large and statistically significant negative effects of education on welfare participation among persons who obtained additional education due to increased schooling requirements induced by child labor laws. The findings are robust across different sample selection and model specifications.

中文翻译：

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美国教育对福利参与的因果影响

摘要

这项研究为教育对美国福利参与的长期影响提供了新的证据。我利用童工法的历史变化作为教育的工具变量来估计教育对获得社会福利的可能性的因果影响。我发现教育对因童工法引起的教育要求增加而获得额外教育的人的福利参与产生了巨大且统计上显着的负面影响。这些发现在不同的样本选择和模型规格中都是可靠的。