Very nice. Minor suggestions below...
Kosuke
On Tue, 13 May 2003, David Konisky wrote:
Please find our working title and abstract below.
Comments are welcome.
David and John
Mothers' Transitions from Welfare to Work and Child Development: The
Importance of Income
You could put them together. i.e., something like, ``The Importance of
Family Income in Evaluating the Effects of Mothers' Transitions from
Welfare to Work on Child Development'' although this may be a bit long.
Chase-Lansdale, et al (2003) argue that mothers'
transitions off welfare
and into employment do not have discernible effects on their children's
cognitive, behavioral, and psychological development. Correcting for
omitted variable bias by considering the variable effects of mothers'
transitions depending on the income level of the family, we show that
mothers' transitions do impact child development. Contrary to the
expectation that mothers' transitions off of welfare and into employment
will be detrimental to children's development, we find these transitions
generally have positive effects for children from households below the
poverty line. Our findings have important implications for evaluating
recent welfare reform initiatives.
You could say this more a little more directly and concisely. Something
like.. "In contrast, we show that mothers' transitions do have positive
impacts on child development in households whose income are below the
poverty line. We demonstrate that the previous work overlooked this
variable effects of mothers' transitions depending on the income level of
the family."
Then you can elaborate more on the last sentence.
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