Evaluating comprehensive state welfare reform : the Wisconsin Works program

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    • Barnow, Burt S.
    • Kaplan, Thomas
    • Moffitt, Robert

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Evaluating comprehensive state welfare reform : the Wisconsin Works program

editors, Burt S. Barnow, Thomas Kaplan, Robert A. Moffitt

Rockefeller Institute Press, 2000

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Includes bibliographical references and index

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内容説明

The recent delegation of authority for welfare programs from the federal government to the states has stimulated increasingly complex and comprehensive reforms which seek in part to generate social messages that discourage dependency on public assistance, promote work, and influence family formation decisions. The message-sending emphasis of the new reforms and their comprehensiveness often makes them hard to evaluate through conventional experimental designs using treatment and control groups. This book offers a lucid discussion of issues involved in evaluating the new reforms, and applies those issues to the evaluation of welfare reform in one state, Wisconsin, which offers a leading example of comprehensive welfare reform. The book opens with an overview of the different types of program evaluation and summarizes clearly the basic issues that are involved in their conduct. A discussion of general evaluation strategies for the new welfare reforms, such as the selection and use of counterfactuals, is followed by consideration of both implementation and impact evaluations of the Wisconsin program. The final section considers the evaluation of specific impacts of the Wisconsin program on economic well-being, family structure, child care services, child support, child welfare, and children with disabilities.

目次

Acknowledgments Foreword Richard P. Nathan Introduction Burt S. Barnow, Thomas Kaplan, and Robert A. Moffitt I. Overview and Outcomes 1. The Next Generation of Welfare Reforms: An Assessment of the Evaluation Challenge Thomas Corbett 2. Outcomes of Interest, Evaluation, Constituencies, and the Necessary Trade-Offs Maria Cancian and Barbara Wolfe II. General Evaluation Strategies 3. Controlled Experiments in Evaluating the New Welfare Programs Glen G. Cain 4. Alernative Designs for Evaluating National Welfare Reform Robert Haveman III. The Wisconsin Works Program A. A Comprehensive Design 5. Toward a Basic Impact Evaluation of the Wisconsin Works Program Thomas Kaplan and Daniel R. Meyer B. Process and Data Issues 6. Process Analysis--The Neglected Stepchild of Evaluations: The Wisconsin Works W-2 Case Study Elisabeth Boehnen and Thomas Corbett 7. Process Evaluation of W-2: What It Is, Why It Is Useful, and How to do It Karen C. Holden and Arthur Reynolds 8. Monitoring Income for Social and Economic Development Martin H. David C. Specific Outcomes 9. Evaluating the Impacts of W-2 on Family Structure and Maternal and Child Health Gary Sandefur and Molly Martin 10. Evaluation of Child Care Services Under the Wisconsin Works Program (W-2) Karen Fox Folk and Marianne Bloch 11. Evaluating the Child Support Reforms in the Wisconsin Works Program Daniel R. Meyer, Maria Cancian, and Emma Caspar 12. Potential Effects of (W-2) on Families Who Have Very Young Children with Disabilities and Special Health Care Needs George Jesien, Caroline Hoffman, and Thomas Kaplan 13. Welfare Reform and Child Welfare Servcies: Issues of Concern and Potential Evaluation Strategies Mark E. Courtney Index

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