TY  - BOOK
AU  - Gueron,Judith M.
AU  - Rolston,Howard
TI  - Fighting for Reliable Evidence
SN  - 9781610448130
AV  - HV91 
U1  - 361.973072 
PY  - 2013///
CY  - Chicago
PB  - Russell Sage Foundation
KW  - Evaluation research (Social action programs) - United States
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Intro -- Table of Contents -- Tables and Figures -- About The Authors -- Preface -- Acknowledgments and Dedication -- Chapter 1. Introduction: The Issue, the Method, and the Story in Brief -- Chapter 2. They Said It Couldn't Be Done: The National Supported Work Demonstration -- Chapter 3. Bridge to the 1980s: Implementing Random Assignment in Work Incentive Program Offices and Testing a Job Guarantee -- Chapter 4. Inventing a New Paradigm: The States as Laboratories -- Chapter 5. The Reagan Revolution and Research Capacity Within the Department of Health and Human Services: From Near Destruction to New Growth -- Chapter 6. The Work/Welfare Demonstration: Lessons About Programs, Research, and Dissemination -- Chapter 7. Waiver Evaluations: How Random Assignment Evaluation Came to Be the Standard for Approval -- Chapter 8. Expanding the Agenda: The Role of Basic Education -- Chapter 9. The JOBS Evaluation: Cumulative Evidence on Basic Education Versus Work First -- Chapter 10. Expanding the Agenda II: Three Experiments to Make Work Pay -- Chapter 11. The End of Our Story: Welfare Reform Recedes from the Spotlight of Random Assignment Program Evaluation -- Chapter 12. Conclusion and Lessons -- Coda. Random Assignment Takes Center Stage -- Appendix -- Abbreviations -- Notes -- Note on Sources -- References -- Index
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