Much of the research analyzing the use of public assistance is limited in two ways. First, most of it focuses only on one public assistance program, typically Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC). Second, most of it analyses AFDC usage with point-in-time cross sectional data, although in the last several years more studies of the dynamics of welfare participation have been undertaken. The result has been an extensive amount of work on who receives welfare and the co-terminously measured effect of this participation on related behaviors, such as labor market participation. While a selected group of studies have broken down one or the other of these limitations, few studies have looked at multiple program participation in a dynamic context, and as a result we know little about the interactions between eligibility and recipiency across a variety of assistance programs.

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The Survey of Income and Program Participation in the 1990's

December 1992

The Survey of Income and Program Participation (SIPP) began in late 1983.

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Time in Panel Effects in the SIPP

September 1992

The U.S. Bureau of the Census and the University of Michigan entered into a Joint Statistical Agreement in the Fall of 1990.

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Measurements of Job Exits: What Difference Does Ambiguity Make?

1992

This paper uses these detailed SIPP data for a sample of full-time salary workers to carry out analysis of the importance of ambiguity in job exit data.

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