Targeting in social programs : avoiding bad bets, removing bad apples /

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"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 t...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Authors: Schuck, Peter H. (Author), Zeckhauser, Richard (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Washington, D.C. : Brookings Institution Press, ©2006.
Subjects:
Since 1993
Public welfare administration > United States.
Human services > Government policy > United States.
Aide sociale > Administration > États-Unis.
Services sociaux > Politique gouvernementale > États-Unis.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > Social Services & Welfare.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Human Services.
Human services > Government policy
Public welfare administration
Social policy
United States > Social policy > 1993-
États-Unis > Politique sociale > 1993-
United States
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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.

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