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Evaluating Welfare Reform in an Era of Transition

by Panel on Data and Methods for Measuring the Effects of Changes in Social Welfare Programs

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Published by National Academies Press .
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    Subjects:
  • Central government policies,
  • Social issues,
  • Welfare & benefit systems,
  • Income Maintenance Programs,
  • Social Policy,
  • Political Science,
  • Politics / Current Events,
  • Politics/International Relations,
  • USA,
  • General,
  • Public Policy - Social Services & Welfare,
  • Social Sciences,
  • Economic Conditions,
  • Public Affairs & Administration,
  • Evaluation,
  • Public welfare,
  • Public welfare administration,
  • Social surveys,
  • United States

  • Edition Notes

    ContributionsRobert A. Moffitt (Editor), Michele Ver Ploeg (Editor)
    The Physical Object
    FormatHardcover
    Number of Pages268
    ID Numbers
    Open LibraryOL10358358M
    ISBN 100309072743
    ISBN 109780309072748

    Assesses how welfare reform has affected behavior, evaluating the evidence in relation to an economic model of behavior, and reveals the trade-offs that policymakers face in achieving the conflicting goals of promoting work, reducing dependency, and alleviating need among the poor. "Welfare reform and child welfare services: Issues of concern and potential evaluation strategies." In Evaluating state welfare reforms: A conference, IRP special report series, SR #69, Madison, Wisconsin: Institute for Research on Poverty, March

    Smolensky, ). In an earlier era, he was involved with evaluating and critiquing President Carter’s welfare reform proposals (Danziger, Haveman and Smolensky, ). It is only appropriate that a volume in his honor includes a paper discussing what we’ve learned from the latest round of welfare reform. The effects of the changes made by the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act (PRWORA) to the food assistance programs are likely to be reflected in many of the programs' outcomes. The outcomes likely to be affected include rates of participation in food assistance programs, the characteristics of participants, levels of food security, the dietary and health status of.

    Get this from a library! Evaluating welfare reform in the United States. [Rebecca M Blank; National Bureau of Economic Research.] -- Abstract: This paper reviews the economics literature on welfare reform over the s. A brief summary of the policy changes over this period is followed by a discussion of the methodological. 4 EVALUATING WELFARE REFORM ment to those with children as young as one year of age. The FSA imposed considerably higher participation re-quirements on two-parent families, who were eligible under the Unemployed Parent (AFDC-UP) Program. Between fis-cal years and , participation was to rise from 40 percent to 75 percent.


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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. Get this from a library. Evaluating welfare reform in an era of transition.

[Robert A Moffitt; Michele Ver Ploeg; National Research Council (U.S.). Panel on Data and Methods for Measuring the Effects of Changes in Social Welfare Programs.;] -- Identifies key policy questions for measuring whether changing social welfare programmes in the United States are working.

Book note for Robert A. Moffitt and Michele Ver Ploeg (Eds.), Evaluating Welfare Reform in an Era of Transition. Washington, DC: National Academy Press, $ hardcover.

Get this from a library. Evaluating Welfare Reform in an Era of Transition. [Robert Moffitt; Michele Ver Ploeg; National Research Council, Panel on Data and Methods for Measuring the Effects of Changes in Social Welfare Programs Staff,] -- Annotation This volume is the result of analysis done by the National Research Council Panel on Data and Methods for Measuring the Effects of Changes in.

Data Severely Lacking on Effects of Welfare Reform WASHINGTON -- Five years after Congress passed legislation to revamp the nation's welfare system, the effects of the reform have been virtually impossible to assess because of shortcomings in the available data needed to conduct such an evaluation, says a new report from the National Research Council of the National Academies.

"Welfare Reform and Changes in the Economic Well-Being of Children," NBER Working PapersNational Bureau of Economic Research, Inc. Robert A. Moffitt, " The Temporary Assistance for Needy Families Program," NBER Chapters, in: Means-Tested Transfer Programs in the United States, pagesNational Bureau of Economic Research.

Experimental methods are a powerful tool for evaluating the effects of broad components and detailed strategies within a fixed overall reform environment and for evaluating incremental changes in welfare programs.

evaluating welfare reform in an era of transition. washington, d.c.: national academy press p. Book Description. How well do you understand the sweeping welfare reforms of the mids.

The Transition from Welfare to Work: Processes, Challenges, and Outcomes provides a comprehensive examination of the welfare-to-work initiatives that were undertaken just prior to and following the major reform of United States welfare legislation in Get this from a library.

Evaluating welfare reform in an era of transition. [Robert A Moffitt; Michele Ver Ploeg; National Research Council (U.S.). Panel on Data and Methods for Measuring the Effects of Changes in Social Welfare Programs.;]. Evaluating Food Assistance Programs in an Era of Welfare Reform: Summary of a Workshop by National Research Council and Institute of Medicine (Author), Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education (Author), Commission on Behavioral and.

Evaluating Welfare Reform in the United States by Rebecca M. Blank. Published in vol issue 4, pages of Journal of Economic Literature, DecemberAbstract: This paper reviews the economic literature on welfare reform over the s. A brief summary of the policy changes is.

Evaluating Welfare Reform in the United States Rebecca M. Blank. NBER Working Paper No. Issued in June NBER Program(s):Children, Labor Studies This paper reviews the economics literature on welfare reform over the s. In Welfare Reform: Effects of a Decade of Change, Jeffrey Grogger and Lynn Karoly assemble evidence from numerous studies, including nearly three dozen social experiments, to assess how welfare reform has affected behavior.

To broaden our understanding of this wide-ranging policy reform, the authors evaluate the evidence in relation to an Format: Hardcover. The most far-reaching reform of the cash welfare system for single mothers sincePRWORA replaced the federal entitlement program for low-income Evaluating welfare reform in an era of transition: Panel on data and methods for measuring the effects of changes in social welfare programs | Self-Sufficiency Research Clearinghouse.

As social welfare and reform efforts are debated in Congress and local agencies, facts regarding past programs are often elusive. U.S. Social Welfare Reform examines the evolution of major Federal cash assistance programs to low-income families, from the advent of the Reagan administration to the early Obama years.

Written for the professional Format: Hardcover. Evaluating the Welfare State: Social and Political Perspectives together with its companion Social Policy Evaluation: An Economic Perspective is the outgrowth of an international and interdisciplinary conference on policy evaluation held at Tel Aviv University in December The State of the Social Safety Net in the Post-Welfare Reform Era By Bitler, Marianne P.; Hoynes, Hilary W Brookings Papers on Economic Activity, Fall Read preview Overview The Lived Experience of Welfare Reform in Drug-Using Welfare-Needy Households in Inner-City New York By Dunlap, Eloise; Golub, Andrew; Johnson, Bruce D Journal of.

Evaluating Food Assistance Programs in an Era of Welfare Reform Summary of a Workshop Authors: National Research Council (US) Committee on National Statistics ; National Research Council (US) and Institute of Medicine (US) Board on Children, Youth, and Families ; Cited by: 1.

Evaluating Food Assistance Programs in an Era of Welfare Reform: Summary of a Workshop. Show details National Research Council (US) Committee on National Statistics; National Research Council (US) and Institute of Medicine (US) Board on Children, Youth, and Families; Institute of Medicine (US) Food and Nutrition Board; Evanson E, Manski CF.

Journal of Economic Literature Vol. XL (December )pp. 11 Evaluating Welfare Reform in the United States 1. Introduction 0VER THE s the United States fun- damentally changed the structure of its public assistance programs to low-income families.

These policy changes have, in turn, generated a growing body of economic re. Funded by federal tax dollars, welfare use by families ballooned far beyond the Depression era. In, families received support.

Bythat number soared to 1,NCBI Bookshelf. A service of the National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health. this report is not intended to provide a comprehensive review of the current research in the evaluation of welfare reform.

Evaluating Food Assistance Programs in an Era of Welfare Reform.