Evaluating welfare reform : a framework and review of current work : interim report / / Panel on Data and Methods for Measuring the Effects of Changes in Social Welfare Programs ; Robert A. Moffitt and Michele Ver Ploeg, editors

• Pubblicazione: Washington, D.C., : National Academy Press, c1999
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: viii, 151 p
• Soggetto topico: Public welfare - United States - Evaluation; Public welfare administration - United States - Evaluation; Social surveys - United States - Evaluation
• Altri autori: MoffittRobert Ver PloegMichele
• Note generali: "Committee on National Statistics, Commission on Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education, National Research Council."
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. 90-92).
• Nota di contenuto: Evaluating Welfare Reform -- Copyright -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- Executive Summary -- INITIAL CONCLUSIONS -- SHORT-RUN RECOMMENDATIONS -- Identifying Key Policy Concerns -- Defining Key Populations -- Capacity-Building and Cross-State Comparability -- Documenting State Policies -- ASPE Leaver Study Grants -- 1 Introduction -- PROGRAM BACKGROUND -- INITIAL WORK OF THE PANEL -- 2 Framework, Principles, and Designs for Evaluation -- RESEARCH AND POLICY QUESTIONS AND STUDY OBJECTIVES -- Evaluation Studies -- Monitoring and Descriptive Studies -- STUDY POPULATIONS OF INTEREST -- Studies of Recipients: Caseload Dynamics -- Implications -- OUTCOMES AND TIME FRAMES -- STUDY METHODOLOGIES -- Randomized Trials -- Nonexperimental Studies -- Pure Before-and-After Designs -- Pure Cross-Section Designs -- Combination of Cross-Sectional and Before-and-After Designs -- Cohort and Repeated Cross-Section Designs -- ESTIMATING THE EFFECT OF REFORM COMPONENTS -- DATA SOURCES -- Administrative Data -- Survey Data -- Linking Administrative and Survey Data -- Data Providing Descriptions of Programs -- PROCESS EVALUATIONS -- CONCLUSIONS -- 3 ASPE Leaver Studies and Other Current Research on Welfare Reform -- ASPE-FUNDED LEAVER STUDIES -- Outcomes -- Study Populations -- Study Methods: Definition of Cohorts and Comparison Groups -- Data Sources -- RESEARCH ISSUES FOR THE ASPE LEAVER STUDIES -- Cross-Study Comparability -- Monitoring Versus Evaluation -- TANF Entry Rates -- Data Collection and Availability -- OTHER WELFARE LEAVER STUDIES -- OTHER MAJOR WELFARE REFORM PROJECTS -- Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation -- Administration for Children and Families -- Survey of Program Dynamics -- Urban Institute: Assessing the New Federalism Project -- Manpower Demonstration Research Corporation: Project on Devolution and Urban Change. ; Welfare, Children, and Families: A Three-City Study -- Fragile Families and Child Well-Being Study -- Other Studies -- Assessment -- CONCLUSIONS -- 4 Recommendations -- BROAD ROLE FOR THE DEPARTMENT -- Identifying Key Policy Concerns -- Defining Key Populations -- Capacity Building -- Cross-Area Comparability -- Documenting State Policies -- ASPE LEAVER STUDY GRANTS -- References -- Appendices -- APPENDIX A Leaver Studies -- APPENDIX B Summary of Welfare Reform Projects -- APPENDIX C Biographical Sketches of Panel Members and Staff.
• Titolo autorizzato: Evaluating welfare reform
• ISBN: 0-309-18411-8; 1-280-18567-8; 9786610185672; 0-309-59379-4; 0-585-17194-7
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910825409203321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Compass series (Washington, D.C.)