Thursday, May 9 / 10:30 AM - 12:20 PM   •   Jackson

Session 21:
Public Policy and the Family

Chair: Saul D. Hoffman, University of Delaware
Discussant: Robert Moffitt, Johns Hopkins University

  1. How Will Welfare Reform Affect Childbearing and Family Structure Decisions?Robert D. Plotnick, University of Washington ; Elizabeth Peters, Cornell University ; Se-Ook Jeong, University of Washington

  2. Kids for Credit: The Earned Income Tax Credit and FertilityReagan Baughman, University of Michigan ; Stacy Dickert-Conlin, Syracuse University

  3. The Effect of Tax-Benefit Policies on Fertility and Female Labor Force Participation in the United StatesRobert McNown, University of Colorado ; Cristobal Ridao-Cano, University of Colorado at Boulder

  4. Effects of the One-Child Policy on the Number and Sex Composition of Chinese ChildrenGuanghui Li, University of Washington

Other sessions on Marriage, Family and Households