TY  - BOOK
AU  - Ploeg,Michele Ver
AU  - Moffitt,Robert A.
TI  - Evaluating Welfare Reform in an Era of Transition
SN  - 9780309565011
AV  - HV95.E958 2001 
U1  - 361.973 
PY  - 2001///
CY  - Washington, D.C.
PB  - National Academies Press
KW  - Public welfare-United States-Evaluation
KW  - Public welfare administration-United States-Evaluation
KW  - Social surveys-United States-Evaluation
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Evaluating WELFARE REFORM in an Era of Transition -- Copyright -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- Executive Summary -- THE PANEL -- FINDINGS -- KEY QUESTIONS OF INTEREST -- Populations of Interest -- Outcomes of Interest -- Research Questions of Interest -- EVALUATION METHODS FOR THE QUESTIONS OF INTEREST -- DATA FOR MONITORING AND EVALUATING SOCIAL WELFARE PROGRAMS -- 1 Introduction -- THE PANEL -- POLICY BACKGROUND -- STRUCTURE OF THE REPORT -- 2 Welfare Reform Monitoring and Evaluation: The Current Landscape -- Major Supporting Funders -- DESCRIPTIVE AND MONITORING STUDIES -- STUDIES OF WELFARE LEAVERS AND RELATED GROUPS -- RANDOMIZED EXPERIMENTS -- CASELOAD AND OTHER ECONOMETRIC MODELS -- PROCESS, IMPLEMENTATION, AND QUALITATIVE STUDIES -- OTHER WELFARE REFORM STUDIES -- STUDIES ON TOPICS RELATED TO WELFARE REFORM -- 3 Research Questions and Populations of Interest -- POPULATIONS OF INTEREST -- OUTCOMES OF INTEREST -- QUESTIONS OF INTEREST -- Monitoring the Well-Being of the Low-Income Population -- Characterizing and Tracking Policies, Programs, and Administrative Practices -- Formally Evaluating the Impact of Welfare Reform -- NATIONWIDE VERSUS INDIVIDUAL STATE ASSESSMENTS -- ASSESSMENT -- 4 Evaluation Methods and Issues -- OVERVIEW OF EVALUATION METHODS -- Experimental Methods -- Nonexperimental Methods -- Process Analysis and Qualitative Methods -- EVALUATION METHODS FOR THE QUESTIONS OF INTEREST -- Estimating the Overall Effects of Structural Welfare Reform -- Estimating the Effects of Individual Broad Reform Components -- Estimating the Effects of Detailed Reform Strategies -- Conclusions -- ISSUES IN EVALUATION METHODOLOGY -- Assessing the Reliability of Nonexperimental Evaluation Methods -- Specification Tests -- Sensitivity Testing -- Applying Nonexperimental Methods to Experimental Data; Analysis of Statistical Power of Cross-State Comparison Methods -- Generalizability of Evaluation Results -- Process and Qualitative Analysis -- The Importance of Welfare Dynamics to Evaluation -- ASSESSMENT OF CURRENT EVALUATION EFFORTS -- Leaver Studies -- Randomized Experiments -- Caseload and Other Econometric Models -- Summary -- NEXT STEPS -- 5 Data Needs and Issues -- SURVEY DATA -- National-Level Survey Data -- Population Coverage -- Population Subgroups -- Nonresponse -- Timeliness -- Survey Content -- Measurement Error -- Longitudinal Data -- Use for Monitoring and Evaluation -- Use in Current Welfare Projects -- Conclusions and Recommendations -- State and Local Surveys -- Use for Monitoring and Evaluation -- Use in Current Welfare Reform Studies -- Conclusions and Recommendations -- ADMINISTRATIVE DATA -- General Issues -- Cross-State Comparability -- Research Uses of TANF-Required Data -- DATA ACCESS AND CONFIDENTIALITY -- PROGRAM DESCRIPTION DATA -- QUALITATIVE DATA -- SUMMARY AND ASSESSMENT OF THE CURRENT DATA INFRASTRUCTURE -- 6 Administrative Issues for Maintaining the Data Infrastructure -- THE CURRENT SYSTEM -- A PROPOSED SYSTEM -- Administrative Mechanisms and Functions -- Examples of Other Agencies -- The Functions Needed -- References -- Appendix A Major Current Welfare-Related Research Sponsored by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services -- Appendix B Summary of Current Welfare Reform Projects -- Appendix C The Statistical Power of National Data to Evaluate Welfare Reform -- THE MODELS CONSIDERED -- AN INTRODUCTION TO REGRESSION POWER CALCULATIONS -- THE POWER OF CEA MODELS TO DETECT WAIVER EFFECTS AND COMPONENT EFFECTS ON AFDC CASELOADS -- THE POWER OF CPS MODELS TO DETECT WAIVER EFFECTS ON AFDC CASELOADS AND CASELOADS IN SUBSETS OF THE POPULATION; THE POWER OF CPS MODELS TO DETECT WAIVER EFFECTS ON OTHER OUTCOME MEASURES -- OBTAINING MORE POWER -- REFERENCES -- Appendix D Summaries of National-Level Survey Data Sets Relevant to Welfare Monitoring and Evaluation -- DECENNIAL LONG FORM -- 2000 Census Long Form -- AMERICAN COMMUNITY SURVEY -- MARCH CPS -- SURVEY OF INCOME AND PROGRAM PARTICIPATION -- SURVEY OF PROGRAM DYNAMICS -- THE NATIONAL SURVEY OF AMERICA'S FAMILIES -- THE PANEL STUDY OF INCOME DYNAMICS -- THE NATIONAL LONGITUDINAL SURVEYS OF YOUTH -- REFERENCES -- Biographical Sketches of Panel Members and Staff -- Index
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