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ArticleDemography2026

The Glass Is Half Full: The Safety Net for Low-Income Women Around Childbirth.

Colleen Heflin, Taryn W Morrissey, Hyojeong Kim

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Article in Demography, 2026. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Colleen HeflinDepartment of Public Administration and International Affairs, Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY, USA.ORCID 0000-0001-9323-2027
Taryn W MorrisseyDepartment of Public Administration and Policy, School of Public Affairs, American University, Washington, DC, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-2916-0820
Hyojeong KimDepartment of Public Administration and International Affairs, Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY, USA.ORCID 0009-0006-0350-4150

Funding

Center for Aging and Policy Studies (CAPS) Core D: External Research Resources Support and Dissemination CoreP30AG066583 · NIA · SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY · PI MONTEZ, JENNIFER KARAS · 2020 to 2024
$2.1M
NIA NIH HHS P30 AG066583
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Employed, social welfare-connected mothers experience a substantial reduction in earnings around a child's birth. Social welfare programs, assuming full take-up, can offset these lost earnings after birth but not during pregnancy. Most social welfare benefits available around birth are nutrition assistance, which are not fungible. These mothers spend about six months out of the labor force, with Black mothers returning earlier, on average.

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EmploymentIncomeParturitionPovertySocial WelfareWomen, WorkingAdultBlack or African AmericanFemaleHumansPregnancyUnited StatesYoung AdultChildbirthChild penaltyEconomic insecurityMaternal labor force participationSocial welfare participation

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PMID42596803
PMCPMC13551465

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