Thus, there are few male heads who are at risk for AFDC participation. Author s tabulations of CPS data. The 1996 poverty lines are obtained from Federal Register, 1996. The final dummy variable for each set is subsumed in the constant term. The estimates for labor force participation are obtained in a similar fashion.
Hours of work is computed as follows.
For total income, multiply 0.268 by the coefficient of 0.764, giving a change of 0.205. 15 Employment Policies Institute, 1997. The term poverty points means moving the Medicaid notch by some percentage of the poverty line. For example, moving the notch from 100 percent of poverty to 133 percent would be 33 poverty points. Note that the actual dollar amount depends on family size and year.