大衰退、公共转移支付与物质匮乏
The Great Recession, Public Transfers, and Material Hardship.
作者信息
Pilkauskas Natasha V, Currie Janet, Garfinkel Irwin
机构信息
Doctoral student in the School of Social Work at Columbia University.
Henry Putnam Professor of Economics and Public Affairs and Director of the Center for Health and Well-being at Princeton University.
出版信息
Soc Serv Rev. 2012 Sep;86(3):401-427. doi: 10.1086/667993.
Economic downturns lead to lost income and increased poverty. Although high unemployment almost certainly also increases material hardship, and government transfers likely decrease hardship, the first relationship has not yet been documented and the second is poorly understood. We use data from five waves of the Fragile Families and Child Well-being Study to study the relationships between unemployment, government transfers, and material hardship. The latest wave of data was collected during the Great Recession, the worst recession since the Great Depression, providing a unique opportunity to look at how high unemployment rates affect the well-being of low income families. We find that the unemployment rate is associated with increased overall material hardship, difficulty paying bills, having utilities disconnected, and with increased usage of TANF, SNAP, UI and Medicaid. If not for SNAP, food hardship might have increased by twice the amount actually observed.
经济衰退导致收入损失和贫困加剧。尽管高失业率几乎肯定也会增加物质困难，而且政府转移支付可能会减轻困难，但第一种关系尚未得到记录，第二种关系也鲜为人知。我们使用脆弱家庭与儿童福利研究五轮的数据来研究失业、政府转移支付和物质困难之间的关系。最新一轮数据是在大衰退期间收集的，这是自大萧条以来最严重的衰退，为研究高失业率如何影响低收入家庭的福祉提供了独特的机会。我们发现，失业率与总体物质困难加剧、支付账单困难、公用事业中断以及临时援助、补充营养援助计划、失业保险和医疗补助的使用增加有关。如果没有补充营养援助计划，食品困难可能会增加到实际观察到的两倍。
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