Targeting in Social Programs [[electronic resource] ] : Avoiding Bad Bets, Removing Bad Apples / / Peter H. Schuck, Richard J. Zeckhauser
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Schuck Peter H
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Targeting in Social Programs [[electronic resource] ] : Avoiding Bad Bets, Removing Bad Apples / / Peter H. Schuck, Richard J. Zeckhauser
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| Pubblicazione: | Washington, D.C., : Brookings Institution Press, c2006 |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (183 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 361.6120973 |
| Soggetto topico: | Human services - Government policy - United States |
| Public welfare administration - United States | |
| Soggetto geografico: | United States Social policy 1993- |
| Soggetto genere / forma: | Electronic books. |
| Altri autori: |
ZeckhauserRichard
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| Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references (p. 137-161) and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | Introduction -- Conceptual foundations of target efficiency -- High stakes, misguided evasions, and bad policies -- Avoiding bad bets -- Removing bad apples -- Predictive accuracy and procedural protection -- Better information, better targeting, and better policies. |
| Sommario/riassunto: | "Provides a framework for analyzing the challenges involved in defining bad bets and bad apples and discusses the safeguards that any classification process must provide. Examines public schools, public housing, and medical care and proposes policy changes that could reduce the problems these two groups pose in social welfare programs"--Provided by publisher. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Targeting in Social Programs |
| ISBN: | 1-280-76573-9 |
| 9786610765737 | |
| 0-8157-7879-1 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910457880803321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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