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Evaluating Welfare Reform : a Framework and Review of Current Work, Interim Report.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Staff, National Research Council
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Washington : National Academies Press, 1999.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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 INTERESTStudies 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 EVALUATIONSCONCLUSIONS
  • 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 FamiliesSurvey 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 GRANTSReferences
  • Appendices
  • APPENDIX A Leaver Studies
  • APPENDIX B Summary of Welfare Reform Projects
  • APPENDIX C Biographical Sketches of Panel Members and Staff