Changes in Family Structure and Welfare Participation Since the 1960s: The Role of Legal Services

Data collection for this project was generously supported by the National Institutes of Health (R03-HD066145). We gratefully acknowledge the use of the services and facilities of the Population Studies Center at the University of Michigan (funded by NICHD Center Grant R24 HD041028), and Martha Bailey for feedback and for helping to fund and prepare some of the outcome data. We also thank Marianne Bitler, Kitt Carpenter, Bill Collins, Hilary Hoynes, Lucie Schmidt, and seminar participants at Southern Methodist University, University of California Santa Barbara, University of California Irvine, University of Memphis, University of Mississippi, Yale University, Population Association of America, Tennessee Empirical Applied Micro Fest, University of Wisconsin Institute for Research on Poverty, and the NBER Children’s Summer Institute for helpful feedback. All remaining errors are our own. Appendices available here:

https://cdn.vanderbilt.edu/vu-my/wp-content/uploads/sites/2318/2019/08/23144130/cgb_lsp_appendix.pdf The views expressed herein are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Bureau of Economic Research.

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