LEADER 04976nam 22006134a 450 001 9910220083003321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a0-8330-3596-7 035 $a(CKB)111090529190246 035 $a(EBL)197461 035 $a(OCoLC)475901477 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000270217 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11194127 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000270217 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10268764 035 $a(PQKB)11097199 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL197461 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10056147 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL289753 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC197461 035 $a(EXLCZ)99111090529190246 100 $a20010710d2003 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 00$aWelfare reform in California $eearly results from the impact analysis /$fJacob A. Klerman ... [et al.] 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aSanta Monica, Calif. $cRand$dc2003 215 $a1 online resource (147 p.) 300 $a"MR-1358." 311 $a0-8330-3039-6 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 105-122). 327 $aPreface; Contents; Figures; Tables; Summary; Acknowledgments; Acronyms and Abbreviations; 1. Introduction; Background; Objectives and Conceptual Model; Pre-CalWORKs Welfare Reforms; The CalWORKs Reforms; Other Government Policies; The Economy; Methods; Random Assignment; Nonexperimental Program Evaluation; Simulation; Data; Scope of This Report; Organization of the Report; 2. Program Participation; Overview of Descriptive Findings; Meeting Federal Participation Rates; Components Used to Determine Participation Rates 327 $aHow California Has Fared in Meeting All-Families Work Activity Participation Rates How California Has Fared in Meeting Two-Parent Work Activity Participation Rates; How California Compares with the Rest of the Nation in Meeting Federal Work Activity Participation Rate Requirements; Near-Universal, Immediate Participation in CALWORKS WTW Activities for 32 Hours per Week; How Many Hours Are Welfare Recipients Participating in the Activities?; Of Those Current Welfare Recipients Who Are Working, How Much Are They Working?; Possible Explanations for Descriptive Findings 327 $aThe Effects of County Welfare Programs The Effects of the Composition of California's Welfare Caseload; The Effects of Pre-CalWORKs Reforms and CalWORKs Legislative Changes to the Benefit Structure; The Effects of Other CalWORKs Legislative Changes; The Effects of the Economy; 3. The Caseload; Overview of Descriptive Findings; Caseload Trends in California; Aggregate Statewide Trends; Disaggregated Trends by Subgroups; The Effects of Changes in Population and Composition on California's Caseload; California's Caseload Trends Relative to the Rest of the Nation 327 $aPossible Explanations for the Descriptive Findings What Might Explain the Magnitude and Timing of the Caseload Decline in California?; What Might Explain the Smaller Caseload Decline in California Compared with the Rest of the Nation?; 4. Outcomes for Leavers; Overview of Descriptive Findings; Return to Welfare; Employment, Earnings, and Earnings Growth Among Leavers; How Welfare Leavers Are Faring in Terms of Any Employment and Earnings Growth; How Leavers Are Faring in Terms of Full-Time Work and Household Resources; Given Employment Levels, How Are Leavers Supporting Themselves? 327 $aEntering Cohorts versus Leaving Cohorts Medi-Cal Take-Up Among Leavers; Outcomes for All Single-Parent Households; Possible Explanations for the Descriptive Findings; Decreases in Return to Cash Aid, Increases in Employment and Earnings, and Decreases in Poverty Rates; Increases in Medi-Cal Take-up Rates; 5. Conclusions and Next Steps; Conclusions; What Has Happened to Outcomes of Interest?; What Caused These Outcomes?; Were the Changes Worth the Cost?; Next Steps; Appendix A. Overview of Factors That Might Affect Outcomes; B. Data Sources; C. Analytic Methods 327 $aD. Results of the Policy Simulation Conducted on Participation Rates 330 $aExamines the effects of the California Work Opportunity and Responsibility to Kids (CalWORKs) program on work activity participation rates of welfare recipients, welfare caseloads, and outcomes for welfare leavers. While the CalWORKs reforms appear to have been responsible for some of the uniform improvement in outcomes shown by the analysis, the robust economy and other policy changes were probably also important. 606 $aWelfare recipients$xEmployment$zCalifornia 606 $aPublic welfare$zCalifornia 615 0$aWelfare recipients$xEmployment 615 0$aPublic welfare 676 $a362.5/8/09794 701 $aKlerman$b Jacob Alex$0909664 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910220083003321 996 $aWelfare reform in California$92047518 997 $aUNINA