caa a22 4500 386340684 CHVBK 20180307111749.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161130e198909 xx s 000 0 eng 10.2307/1962057 doi S0003055400085944 pii (NATIONALLICENCE)cambridge-10.2307/1962057 American Federalism, Welfare Policy, and Residential Choices [Elektronische Daten] The relationship between welfare benefit levels and the residential choices of the poor raises two issues for federalism in the United States. Do state benefit levels affect the residential choices of the poor? Do residential choices of the poor affect the level at which a state sets its benefit levels? Empirical studies have seldom studied the interconnection between these two issues. This research estimates simultaneously the mutual effects of welfare benefits and poverty rates while controlling for other economic and political variables. When benefit levels become high, the size of the poverty population increases. Conversely, when poverty rates become high, benefit levels are cut. The findings are consistent with the claim that state-determined benefit levels distort policy and residential choices. Copyright © American Political Science Association 1989 Peterson Paul E. Harvard University Rom Mark University of Wisconsin Madison American Political Science Review Cambridge University Press 83/3(1989-09), 711-728 0003-0554 83:3<711 1989 83 PSR https://doi.org/10.2307/1962057 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.2307/1962057 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Peterson Paul E. Harvard University NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Rom Mark University of Wisconsin Madison NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- American Political Science Review Cambridge University Press 83/3(1989-09), 711-728 0003-0554 83:3<711 1989 83 PSR CC0 http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0 nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-cambridge