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100 1 _aPloeg, Michele Ver.
245 1 0 _aEvaluating Welfare Reform in an Era of Transition.
250 _a1st ed.
264 1 _aWashington, D.C. :
_bNational Academies Press,
_c2001.
264 4 _c©2001.
300 _a1 online resource (267 pages)
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505 0 _aEvaluating 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.
505 8 _aAnalysis 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.
505 8 _aTHE 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.
588 _aDescription based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
590 _aElectronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
650 0 _aPublic welfare-United States-Evaluation.
650 0 _aPublic welfare administration-United States-Evaluation.
650 0 _aSocial surveys-United States-Evaluation.
655 4 _aElectronic books.
700 1 _aMoffitt, Robert A.
776 0 8 _iPrint version:
_aPloeg, Michele Ver
_tEvaluating Welfare Reform in an Era of Transition
_dWashington, D.C. : National Academies Press,c2001
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