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

"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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Cote:Libro Electrónico
Auteurs principaux: Schuck, Peter H. (Auteur), Zeckhauser, Richard (Auteur)
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Washington, D.C. : Brookings Institution Press, ©2006.
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Accès en ligne:Texto completo
Table des matières:
  • 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.