U.S. Mothers' Pension Records: 1911-1930
Principal Investigator(s): View help for Principal Investigator(s) Shari Eli; Anna Aizer, Brown University; Joseph Ferrie, Northwestern University; Adriana Lleras-Muney, University of California-Los Angeles
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Project Citation:
Eli, S., Aizer, A., Ferrie, J., & Lleras-Muney, A. (2016). U.S. Mothers’ Pension Records: 1911-1930 [Data set]. Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor]. https://doi.org/10.3886/E71753V1
Project Description
Summary:
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The Mothers' Pension Program was a needs-based program, established on a state-by-state basis between 1911 and 1931. The first state to pass the program was Illinois in 1911, and by 1931, all but four states had passed a program to aid mothers with dependent children. Mothers in need of pensions applied for them at the county-level. At present, 80,000 individual case files have been collected. For some states, the full universe of counties that provided MP benefits have been collected if found, while for others only a subset of counties have been found—but if a county has records, the universe of records has been collected by the researchers of the Mothers' Pension Project. For an historical account of the Mothers' Pension program in each state, see the Mothers' Pension Project Website here: http://individual.utoronto.ca/shari_eli/datamp.html. Records have been collected for the following 14 states: Colorado, Connecticut, Idaho, Illinois, Iowa, Minnesota, Montana, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Washington and Wisconsin. In some states, all or nearly all records are no longer extant due to short retention schedules set by states or privacy restrictions.
The records contained in this extract pertain to those used in the folllowing article: A. Aizer, S. Eli, J. Ferrie, A. Lleras-Muney (2015). "The Long-Run Impact of Cash Transfers to Poor Families." American Economic Review, April 2016.
The records contained in this extract pertain to those used in the folllowing article: A. Aizer, S. Eli, J. Ferrie, A. Lleras-Muney (2015). "The Long-Run Impact of Cash Transfers to Poor Families." American Economic Review, April 2016.
Funding Sources:
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National Institutes of Health (R01 HD077227-01A1)
Scope of Project
Subject Terms:
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demography;
welfare legislation;
poverty;
economic history;
health behavior;
education;
inequality;
child welfare
Geographic Coverage:
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US
Time Period(s):
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1/1/1911 – 1/1/1935
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