Evaluating welfare reform in an era of transition / / 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, DC, : National Academy Press, c2001
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: xii, 253 p. : ill
• Disciplina: 361.973
• 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, Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education, National Research Council."
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Machine generated contents note: I -- EXECUTIVE SUMMARY -- The Panel, 1 -- Findings, 2 -- Key Questions of Interest, 3 -- Evaluation Methods for the Questions of Interest, 7 -- Data for Monitoring and Evaluating Social Welfare Programs, 8 -- 1 INTRODUCTION -- The Panel, 14 -- Policy Background, 16 -- Structure of the Report, 23 -- 2 WELFARE REFORM MONITORING AND EVALUATION: -- THE CURRENT LANDSCAPE -- Descriptive and Monitoring Studies, 26 -- Studies of Welfare Leavers and Related Groups, 28 -- Randomized Experiments 30 -- Caseload and Other Econometric Models, 3I -- Process, Implementation, and Qualitative Studies, 33 -- R Other Welfare Reform Studies, 34 -- Studies on Topics Related to Welfare Reform, 34 -- 3 RESEARCH QUESTIONS AND POPULATIONS -- OF INTEREST -- Populations of Interest, 37 xi -- Outcomes of Interest, 39 -- Questions of Interest, 41 -- Nationwide Versus Individual State Assessments, 49 -- Assessment, 50 -- 4 EVALUATION METHODS AND ISSUES -- Overview of Evaluation Methods, 55 -- Evaluation Methods for the Questions of Interest, 63 -- Issues in Evaluation Methodology, 73 -- Assessment of Current Evaluation Efforts, 93 -- Next Steps, 99 -- 5 DATA NEEDS AND ISSUES -- Survey Data, 104 -- Administrative Data, 128 -- Data Access and Confidentiality, 138 -- Program Description Data, 141 -- Qualitative Data, 144 -- Summary and Assessment of the Current Data Infrastructure, 146 -- 6 ADMINISTRATIVE ISSUES FOR MAINTAINING THE -- DATA INFRASTRUCTURE -- The Current System, 150 -- A Proposed System, 154 -- REFERENCES -- APPENDICES -- A Major Current Welfare-Related Research Sponsored -- by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services -- B Summary of Current Welfare Reform Projects -- C The Statistical Power of National Data to Evaluate Welfare Reform -- John Adams and V. Joseph Hotz -- D Summaries of National-Level Survey Data Sets Relevant to -- Welfare Monitoring and Evaluation -- BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES OF -- PANEL MEMBERS AND STAFF INDEX.
• Sommario/riassunto: Reform of welfare is one of the nation's most contentious issues, with debate often driven more by politics than by facts and careful analysis. Evaluating Welfare Reform in an Era of Transition identifies the key policy questions for measuring whether our changing social welfare programs are working, reviews the available studies and research, and recommends the most effective ways to answer those questions. This book discusses the development of welfare policy, including the landmark 1996 federal law that devolved most of the responsibility for welfare policies and their implementation to the states. A thorough analysis of the available research leads to the identification of gaps in what is currently known about the effects of welfare reform. Evaluating Welfare Reform in an Era of Transition specifies what-and why-we need to know about the response of individual states to the federal overhaul of welfare and the effects of the many changes in the nation's welfare laws, policies, and practices. With a clear approach to a variety of issues, Evaluating Welfare Reform in an Era of Transition will be important to policy makers, welfare administrators, researchers, journalists, and advocates on all sides of the issue.
• Altri titoli varianti: Welfare reform
• Titolo autorizzato: Evaluating welfare reform in an era of transition
• ISBN: 9786610210107; 9780309171342; 0309171342; 9781280210105; 1280210109; 9780309565011; 0309565014
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910957217503321
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