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More Than a Job
Final Results from the Evaluation of the Center for Employment Opportunities (CEO) Transitional Jobs Program
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2012. Cindy Redcross, Megan Millenky, Timothy Rudd, and Valerie Levshin.
Ex-prisoners who had access to CEO’s transitional jobs program were less likely to be convicted of a crime and reincarcerated. The effects were particularly large for those ex-prisoners who enrolled in the program shortly after release. The recidivism reductions mean that the program is cost-effective — generating more in savings than it cost.
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Alternative Employment Strategies for Hard-to-Employ TANF Recipients
Final Results from a Test of Transitional Jobs and Preemployment Services in Philadelphia
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2011. Erin Jacobs and Dan Bloom.
An evaluation of two different welfare-to-work strategies for long-term welfare recipients finds that: (1) transitional jobs substantially increased employment in the short term, but these effects faded after one year, and (2) it is difficult to engage welfare recipients in extensive preemployment services long enough to improve their employability.
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Working toward Wellness
Telephone Care Management for Medicaid Recipients with Depression, Thirty-Six Months After Random Assignment
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2011. Sue Kim, Allen LeBlanc, Pamela Morris, Greg Simon, and Johanna Walter.
A telephonic care management program increased the use of mental health services by Medicaid recipients with depression while the program was running, but it did not help individuals sustain treatment after the intervention ended. The program did not reduce depression on average, nor did it have any effect on employment outcomes.
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Supporting Healthy Marriage Toolkit
Resources for Program Operators from the Supporting Healthy Marriage Demonstration and Evaluation
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2011. MDRC.
Developed for sites participating in a federal demonstration and evaluation of relationship and marriage skills programs for low-income married couples, this toolkit offers practical guidance about program design, management, and marketing, among other topics. It may be particularly useful for voluntary programs focusing on family relationships, couples, or fatherhood.
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A Two-Generational Child-Focused Program Enhanced with Employment Services
Eighteen-Month Impacts from the Kansas and Missouri Sites of the Enhanced Services for the Hard-to-Employ Demonstration and Evaluation Project
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2011. JoAnn Hsueh, Erin Jacobs, and Mary Farrell.
The report offers implementation and early impact findings from a random assignment evaluation of two Early Head Start programs that were enhanced with formalized services to proactively address parents’ employment, educational, and self-sufficiency needs.
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Working toward Wellness
Telephone Care Management for Medicaid Recipients with Depression, Eighteen Months After Random Assignment
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2010. Sue Kim, Allen LeBlanc, Pamela Morris, Greg Simon, and Johanna Walter.
A telephonic care management program increased the use of mental health services by Medicaid recipients with depression, although that effect faded over time. The program did not reduce depression on average, but it did reduce the number of people who suffered from very severe depression.
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The Effects of Child Care Subsidies for Moderate-Income Families in Cook County, Illinois
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U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Administration for Children and Families, Office of Planning, Research and Evaluation
2010. Charles Michalopolous, Erika Lundquist, and Nina Castells.
This report seeks to answer two policy questions: whether providing subsidies to families whose incomes are just over the state’s eligibility limit affects their child care and employment outcomes, and whether extending the length of time before families must reapply for subsidies affects the receipt of subsidies and related outcomes.
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Recidivism Effects of the Center for Employment Opportunities (CEO) Program Vary by Former Prisoners’ Risk of Reoffending
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2010. Janine Zweig, Jennifer Yahner, and Cindy Redcross.
CEO, a transitional jobs program for former prisoners in New York City, had its strongest effects for participants who were at highest risk of recidivism, for whom CEO reduced the probability of rearrest, the number of rearrests, and the probability of reconviction two years after entering the program.
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Effects of Reducing Child Care Subsidy Copayments in Washington State
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U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Administration for Children and Families, Office of Planning, Research and Evaluation
2010. Charles Michalopoulos.
This final report of a two-year evaluation is intended to help states determine how to structure child care subsidy programs. Focusing on how much families should be required to contribute when they receive child care subsidies, the study examined the effects of reduced copayments on subsidy use, employment and earnings, and receipt of public assistance.
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Making Preschool More Productive
How Classroom Management Training Can Help Teachers
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2010. Pamela Morris, C. Cybele Raver, Megan Millenky, Stephanie Jones, and Chrishana M. Lloyd.
Foundations of Learning provided training and in-class support to teachers to help guide children’s behavior and emotional development. In Newark, NJ, the program improved teachers’ classroom management and productivity, reduced children’s conflict with peers, and increased children’s engagement. A year later, few effects for children were sustained as they entered kindergarten, but teachers were still engaged in positive practices.
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The Supporting Healthy Marriage Evaluation
Early Lessons from the Implementation of a Relationship and Marriage Skills Program for Low-Income Married Couples
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2010. Jennifer Miller Gaubert, Virginia Knox, Desiree Principe Alderson, Christopher Dalton, Kate Fletcher, and Meghan McCormick.
An important first hurdle for voluntary programs is recruiting and retaining eligible participants. This report describes how ten Supporting Healthy Marriage programs focused on developing effective marketing strategies, keeping couples engaged in the program, and building management systems. These efforts resulted in encouraging early levels of participation by low-income couples.
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Policies That Strengthen Fatherhood and Family Relationships
What Do We Know and What Do We Need to Know?
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2010. Virginia Knox, Philip A. Cowan, Carolyn Pape Cowan, and Elana Bildner.
This working paper, prepared for a conference sponsored by the Institute for Research on Poverty at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, reviews evidence about the effectiveness of two strategies to strengthen family relationships and fathers’ involvement with their children: fatherhood programs aimed at disadvantaged noncustodial fathers and relationship skills programs for parents who are together.
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Transitional Jobs
Background, Program Models, and Evaluation Evidence
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2010. Dan Bloom.
Transitional jobs programs provide temporary, wage-paying jobs and other services to help individuals who have difficulty succeeding in the regular labor market. In the context of a new federal initiative to support and study these programs, this paper describes what is known about transitional jobs and offers ideas for program design and research.
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Alternative Welfare-to-Work Strategies for the Hard-to-Employ
Testing Transitional Jobs and Pre-Employment Services in Philadelphia
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2009. Dan Bloom, Sarah Rich, Cindy Redcross, Erin Jacobs, Jennifer Yahner, and Nancy Pindus.
Interim results from an evaluation of two different welfare-to-work strategies for long-term welfare recipients show that transitional jobs increase employment and earnings but that it is difficult to successfully engage participants in extensive pre-employment services.
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Promoting Preschool Quality Through Effective Classroom Management
Implementation Lessons from the Foundations of Learning Demonstration
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2009. Chrishana M. Lloyd and Michael Bangser, with Farrah Parkes.
Foundations of Learning provided in-class training and support to teachers, and one-on-one clinical services to children, to enhance preschool quality. This report offers lessons regarding program design, management, staffing, and professional development issues that arose during implementation in Newark, NJ.
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Spending Time Together
Time Use Estimates for Economically Disadvantaged and Nondisadvantaged Married Couples in the United States
Working Paper
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2009. David J. Fein
Contrary to some expectations, economically disadvantaged couples spend slightly more time together than nondisadvantaged ones, and more of that time is spent in leisure activities, according to this paper from the Supporting Healthy Marriage Project. While these couples may face different barriers to participating in voluntary programs than higher-income couples, their “time crunch” appears to be no worse.
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Transitional Jobs for Ex-Prisoners
Implementation, Two-Year Impacts, and Costs of the Center for Employment Opportunities (CEO) Prisoner Reentry Program
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2009. Cindy Redcross, Dan Bloom, Gilda Azurdia, Janine Zweig, and Nancy Pindus.
A random assignment study shows that participants in CEO’s transitional jobs program were less likely to be convicted of a crime, to be admitted to prison for a new conviction, or to be incarcerated for any reason in prison or jail over the first two years. The program also had a large but short-lived impact on employment.
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Working toward Wellness
Early Results from a Telephone Care Management Program for Medicaid Recipients with Depression
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2009. Sue Kim, Allen LeBlanc, and Charles Michalopoulos.
Very early results from a random assignment study suggest that Working toward Wellness increased the use of mental health services and had mixed effects on depression severity. Impacts are concentrated among Hispanic participants.
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Can Teacher Training in Classroom Management Make a Difference for Children’s Experiences in Preschool?
A Preview of Findings from the Foundations of Learning Demonstration
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2009. Pamela Morris, Cybele Raver, Chrishana M. Lloyd, and Megan Millenky.
Early evaluation results from Newark, NJ, show that Foundations of Learning improved teachers’ classroom management and productivity, reduced children’s conflict with peers, and engaged students in the learning tasks of preschool. The intervention was implemented in Head Start programs, community-based child care centers, and public schools.
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Designing a Marriage Education Demonstration and Evaluation for Low-Income Married Couples
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2008. Virginia Knox and David Fein.
This working paper introduces the Supporting Healthy Marriage evaluation, the first large-scale, multisite experiment that is testing voluntary marriage education programs for low-income married couples with children in eight sites across the country. The year-long programs consist of a series of marriage education workshops with additional family support services and referrals.
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New Hope for the Working Poor
Effects After Eight Years for Families and Children
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2008. Cynthia Miller, Aletha C. Huston, Greg J. Duncan, Vonnie C. McLoyd, and Thomas S. Weisner.
Implemented in 1994 in Milwaukee, New Hope provided full-time, low-wage workers with several benefits for three years: an earnings supplement, low-cost health insurance, and subsidized child care. A random assignment study shows positive effects for both adults and children, some of which persisted five years after the program ended.
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New Hope’s Eight-Year Impacts on Employment and Family Income
Working Paper
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2008. Greg Duncan, Cynthia Miller, Amy Classens, Mimi Engel, Heather Hill, and Constance Lindsay.
Implemented in 1994, New Hope provided full-time workers with several benefits for three years: an earnings supplement, low-cost health insurance, and subsidized child care. This working paper examines the program’s impacts on employment and earnings, as well as on family income and poverty, up to eight years beyond the point of random assignment.
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New Hope’s Effects on Children’s Future Orientation and Employment Experiences
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2008. Vonnie C. McLoyd, Rachel Kaplan, and Kelly M. Purtell.
Implemented in 1994, New Hope provided full-time workers with several benefits for three years: an earnings supplement, low-cost health insurance, and subsidized child care. This working paper examines the program’s impacts on children’s future orientation and employment experiences eight years after random assignment.
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Long-Term Effects of New Hope on Children’s Academic Achievement and Achievement Motivation
Working Paper
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2008. Aletha C. Huston, Jessica Thornton Walker, Chantelle J. Dowsett, Amy E. Imes, and Angelica Ware.
Implemented in 1994, New Hope provided full-time workers with several benefits for three years: an earnings supplement, low-cost health insurance, and subsidized child care. This working paper examines the effects of New Hope on children’s academic achievement and achievement motivation eight years after random assignment.
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New Hope’s Effects on Social Behavior, Parenting, and Activities at Eight Years
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2008. Aletha C. Huston, Anjali E. Gupta, Alison C. Bentley, Chantelle Dowsett, Angelica Ware, and Sylvia R. Epps.
Implemented in 1994, New Hope provided full-time workers with several benefits for three years: an earnings supplement, low-cost health insurance, and subsidized child care. This working paper examines the effects of New Hope on children’s social behavior, parent-child relationships, and participation in out-of-school activities eight years after random assignment.
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Transitional Jobs for Ex-Prisoners
Early Impacts from a Random Assignment Evaluation of the Center for Employment Opportunities (CEO) Prisoner Reentry Program
Working Paper
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2007. Dan Bloom, Cindy Redcross, Janine Zweig (Urban Institute), and Gilda Azurdia.
After one year, CEO’s transitional jobs program generated a large but short-lived increase in employment for ex-prisoners. A subgroup of recently released prisoners showed positive effects on recidivism: They were less likely to have their parole revoked, to be convicted of a felony, and to be reincarcerated than the control group.
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Four Strategies to Overcome Barriers to Employment
An Introduction to the Enhanced Services for the Hard-to-Employ Demonstration and Evaluation Project
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2007. Dan Bloom, Cindy Redcross, JoAnn Hsueh, Sarah Rich, and Vanessa Martin.
This demonstration is evaluating four diverse strategies designed to improve employment and other outcomes for low-income parents and others who face serious barriers to employment.
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Investing in Parents to Invest in Children
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2007. Gordon L. Berlin.
In these remarks, delivered at Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s National Summit on America’s Children on May 22, MDRC President Gordon Berlin summarizes rigorous research evidence showing that supplementing the earnings of parents helps raise families out of poverty and improves the school performance of young children.
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The Power of Work
The Center for Employment Opportunities
Comprehensive Prisoner Reentry Program
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2006. The Center for Employment Opportunities and MDRC.
The Center for Employment Opportunities (CEO) serves nearly 2,000 reentering prisoners a year with a structured program of pre-employment training, immediate short-term transitional work, and job placement services. This report, written jointly by CEO and MDRC, describes how the CEO program operates. Results from a random assignment evaluation by MDRC are expected next year.
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Turning Welfare into a Work Support
Six-Year Impacts on Parents and Children from the Minnesota Family Investment Program
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2005. Lisa A. Gennetian, Cynthia Miller, and Jared Smith.
While positive effects on most parents’ earnings and income faded after six years, young children in some of the most disadvantaged families were still performing better in school than their counterparts in a control group. And, for the most disadvantaged parents, MFIP seems to have created a lasting “leg up” in the labor market.
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Effects of Welfare and Employment Policies on Young Children
New Findings on Policy Experiments Conducted in the Early 1990s
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2005. Pamela A. Morris, Lisa A. Gennetian, and Greg J. Duncan. Social Policy Report Volume XIX, No.2.
In welfare and employment programs that provide earnings supplements, increased family income plays a key role in improving children’s school achievement.
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Stability and Change in Child Care and Employment
Evidence from Three States
Working Paper
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2005. Cynthia Miller.
In a study of over 3,500 women in welfare-to-work programs in three states, child care instability did not appear to be a major cause of employment instability.
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The Interaction of Child Support and TANF
Evidence from Samples of Current and Former Welfare Recipients
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2005. Cynthia Miller, Mary Farrell, Maria Cancian, Daniel R. Meyer.
This study suggests that child support can be an important income source and can help welfare recipients move toward self-sufficiency. More generous distribution rules increase payment rates, but many parents still do not understand the distribution rules.
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Married and Poor
Basic Characteristics of Economically Disadvantaged Couples in the U.S.
Working Paper
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2004. David J. Fein.
Using recent surveys and published reports, this working paper assembles a portrait of the attitudes and behaviors of disadvantaged married couples. It gathers and assesses descriptive statistics on the formation and stability, characteristics, and quality of marriages in the low-income population in the U.S. We welcome discussion and comments on this working paper.
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The Effects of Marriage and Divorce on Families and Children
Presented Before the Science, Technology and Space Subcommittee of the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation, United States Senate
Congressional Testimony
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2004. Gordon Berlin.
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Welfare Reform, Work, and Child Care
The Role of Informal Care in the Lives of Low-Income Women and Children
Policy Brief
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2003. Virginia W. Knox, Andrew S. London, Ellen K. Scott with Susan Blank.
Drawing on ethnographic interviews, this policy brief describes the patchwork child care arrangements made by low-income parents and discusses implications for policies that would promote the dual objectives of child well-being and parental employment.
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The Long-Term Effects of the Minnesota Family Investment Program on Marriage and Divorce Among Two-Parent Families
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2003. Lisa A. Gennetian.
Building on findings that the Minnesota Family Investment Program (MFIP) resulted in higher rates of marital stability among two-parent recipient families who participated in this initiative that provided financial incentives to welfare recipients who worked, this report documents MFIP’s long-term effects on marriage and divorce among participants in the program’s sample of nearly 2,500 two-parent families who were married or cohabiting at study entry.
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New Hope for Families and Children
Five-Year Results of a Program to Reduce Poverty and Reform Welfare
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2003. Aletha C. Huston, Cynthia Miller, Lashawn Richburg-Hayes, Greg J. Duncan, Carolyn A. Eldred, Thomas S. Weisner, Edward Lowe, Vonnie A. McLoyd, Daniella A. Crosby, Marika N. Ripke, Cindy Redcross.
This rigorous long-term evaluation reveals that building a safety net of financial supports for low-income parents who work improved the well-being of their children.
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The Effects of Welfare and Employment Policies on Child Care Use by Low-Income Young Mothers
Working Paper
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2003. Anna Gassman-Pines.
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The Effects of Welfare Policy on Child Care Decisions
Evidence from Ten Experimental Welfare-to-Work Programs
Working Paper
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2003. Philip K. Robins.
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Child Care and Employment
Evidence from Random Assignment Studies of Welfare and Work Programs
Working Paper
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2003. Lisa A. Gennetian and Charles Michalopoulos.
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Out of Their Hands
Patching Together Care for Children When Parents Move from Welfare to Work
Working Paper
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2003. Ellen Scott, Allison Hurst, and Andrew S. London.
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Instability in Child Care
Ethnographic Evidence from Working Poor Families in the New Hope Intervention
Working Paper
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2003. Edward D. Lowe, Thomas S. Weisner, Sonya Geis.
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"Making A Way Out of No Way"
How Mothers Meet Basic Family Needs While Moving from Welfare to Work
Working Paper
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2003. Susan Clampet-Lundquist, Kathryn Edin, Andrew S. London, Ellen Scott, and Vicki Hunter.
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Staying Single
The Effects of Welfare Reform Policies on Marriage and Cohabitation
Working Paper
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2003. Lisa A. Gennetian and Virginia Knox.
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Making Child Care Choices
How Welfare and Work Policies Influence Parents' Decisions
Policy Brief
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2002. Lisa A. Gennetian, Aletha C. Huston, Danielle A. Crosby, Young Eun Chang, Edward D. Lowe, Thomas S. Weisner.
Congressional deliberations on the future of welfare reform have reopened a debate about whether current child care assistance programs adequately support employment among low-income working parents while also fostering their children's development. Issues at the forefront of this debate are explored in this timely new policy brief.
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Moving People from Welfare to Work
Lessons from the National Evaluation of Welfare-to-Work Strategies
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U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, U.S. Department of Education.
2002. Gayle Hamilton.
This report distills lessons from the National Evaluation of Welfare-to-Work Strategies (NEWWS) with a focus on the effectiveness of employment-focused versus education-focused programs in helping people move from welfare to work.
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Making Work Pay
Final Report on the Self-Sufficiency Project for Long-Term Welfare Recipients
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Social Research and Demonstration Corporation.
2002. Charles Michalopoulos, Doug Tattrie, Cynthia Miller, Philip K. Robins, Pamela Morris, David Gyarmati, Cindy Redcross, Kelly Foley, Reuben Ford.
Recognizing that welfare recipients who find jobs may remain poor, the "make work pay" approach rewards those who work by boosting their income. This strategy was the centerpiece of the Self-Sufficiency Project (SSP), a large-scale demonstration program in Canada that offered monthly earnings supplements to single parents who left welfare for full-time work.
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Effects of Welfare and Anti-Poverty Policies on Adult Economic and Middle-Childhood Outcomes Differ for the "Hardest to Employ"
Working Paper
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2002. Hirokazu Yoshikawa, Katherine A. Magnuson, Johannes M. Bos, and JoAnn Hsueh.
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How Child Care Assistance in Welfare and Employment Programs Can Support the Employment of Low-Income Families
Working Paper
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2002. Lisa A. Gennetian, Danielle A. Crosby, Aletha C. Huston, and Edward D. Lowe.
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The Effects of Welfare and Employment Programs on Children's Participation in Head Start
Working Paper
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2002. Young Eun Chang, Aletha C. Huston, Danielle A. Crosby, and Lisa A. Gennetian.
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How Welfare and Work Policies for Parents Affect Adolescents
A Synthesis of Research
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2002. Lisa A. Gennetian, Greg J. Duncan, Virginia W. Knox, Wanda G. Vargas, Elizabeth Clark-Kauffman, Andrew S. London.
The latest research synthesis from the Next Generation project takes a closer look at troubling findings regarding the effects of welfare and work programs on the teenaged children of program enrollees.
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Improving Basic Skills
The Effects of Adult Education in Welfare-to-Work Programs
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U.S. Department of Education, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
2002. Johannes M. Bos, Susan Scrivener, Jason Snipes, Gayle Hamilton with Christine Schwartz, Johanna Walter.
Since the early 1980s, welfare policymakers and program operators have debated the role of adult education in program strategies to help welfare recipients make the transition from welfare to work. This report addresses key questions about how welfare-to-work programs that emphasize adult education activities affect the educational and economic outcomes of welfare recipients.
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Welfare Policies Matter for Children and Youth
Lessons for TANF Reauthorization
Policy Brief
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2002. Pamela Morris, Virginia Knox, Lisa A. Gennetian.
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Jobs First
Final Report on Connecticut's Welfare Reform Initiative
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2002. Dan Bloom, Susan Scrivener, Charles Michalopoulos, Pamela Morris, Richard Hendra, Diana Adams-Ciardullo, Johanna Walter with Wanda Vargas.
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Family and Individual Predictors of Child Care Use by Low-Income Families in Difference Policy Contexts
Working Paper
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2002. Aletha C. Huston, Young Eug Chang, Lisa Gennetian.
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Identifying Effects of Income on Children's Development
Integrating and Instrumental Variables Analytic Method with an Experimental Design
Working Paper
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2002. Pamela A. Morris and Lisa A. Gennetian.
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How Effective Are Different Welfare-to-Work Approaches?
Five-Year Adult and Child Impacts for Eleven Programs
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U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, U.S. Department of Education.
2001. Gayle Hamilton, Stephen Freedman, Lisa Gennetian, Charles Michalopoulos, Johanna Walter, Diana Adams-Ciardullo, Anna Gassman-Pines, Sharon McGroder, Martha Zaslow, Surjeet Ahluwalia, Jennifer Brooks with Electra Small, Bryan Ricchetti.
How best to help people move from welfare to work — particularly whether an employment-focused approach or an education-focused approach is more effective — has been a subject of long-standing debate. This report summary, which describes the long-term effects of 11 different mandatory welfare-to-work programs for single parents and their children, takes a major step toward resolving this debate.
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The Challenge of Helping Low-Income Fathers Support Their Children
Final Lessons from Parents’ Fair Share
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2001. Cynthia Miller, Virginia Knox.
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When Financial Incentives Pay for Themselves
Interim Findings From the Self-Sufficiency Project's Applicant Study
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Social Research and Demonstration Corporation.
2001. Charles Michalopoulos, Tracey Hoy.
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"You have to push it — who's gonna raise your kids?"
Situating Child Care and Child Care Subsidy Use in the Daily Routines of Lower-Income Families
Working Paper
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2001. Edward D. Lowe and Thomas S. Weisner.
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My Children Come First
Welfare-Reliant Women's Post-TANF Views of Work-Family Trade-offs and Marriage
Working Paper
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2001. Ellen K. Scott, Kathryn Edin, Andrew S. London, and Joan Maya Mazelis.
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Does Child Care Assistance Matter?
The Effects of Welfare and Employment Programs on Child Care for Pre-School-Aged Children
Working Paper
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2001. Danielle A. Crosby, Lisa A. Gennetian, Aletha C. Huston.
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Does Child Care Assistance Matter?
The Effects of Welfare and Employment Programs on Child Care
Working Paper
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2001. Lisa A. Gennetian, Danielle A. Crosby, Aletha C. Huston.
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A Review of Child Care Policies in Experimental Welfare and Employment Programs
Working Paper
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2001. Lisa A. Gennetian, Anna Gassman-Pines, Aletha C. Huston, Danielle A. Crosby, Young Eun Chang, Edward D. Lowe.
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SSP Plus at 36 Months
Effects of Adding Employment Services to Financial Work Incentives
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Social Research and Demonstration Corporation.
2001. Ying Lei, Charles Michalopoulos.
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Evaluating Two Approaches to Case Management
Implementation, Participation Patterns, Costs, and Three-Year Impacts of the Columbus Welfare-to-Work Program
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U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, U.S. Department of Education.
2001. Susan Scrivener, Johanna Walter with Thomas Brock, Gayle Hamilton.
This report, from the National Evaluation of Welfare-to-Work Strategies, examines the relative effectiveness of traditional versus integrated case-management approaches in welfare-to-work programs.
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How Welfare and Work Policies Affect Employment and Income
A Synthesis of Research
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2001. Dan Bloom, Charles Michalopoulos.
This monograph synthesizes the results of rigorous studies of 29 welfare reform initiatives evaluated by MDRC over the past 15 years. It examines how three policies that form the core of most state's current welfare programs — mandatory employment services, earnings supplements, and time limits on welfare receipt — affect employment, welfare receipt, and income.
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Three-Year Impacts of Connecticut’s Jobs First Welfare Reform Initiative
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2001. Richard Hendra, Charles Michalopoulos, Dan Bloom.
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How Welfare and Work Policies Affect Children
A Synthesis of Research
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2001. Pamela A. Morris, Aletha C. Huston, Greg J. Duncan, Danielle A. Crosby,
Johannes M. Bos.
This monograph assesses the effects on children of three policies that now form part of many states' current welfare packages: providing financial supports to working families, requiring single parents to work or to participate in work-related activities, and putting time limits on welfare benefits.
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The Family Transition Program
Final Report on Florida's Initial Time-Limited Welfare Program
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2000. Dan Bloom, James J. Kemple, Pamela Morris, Susan Scrivener, Nandita Verma,
Richard Hendra with Diana Adams-Ciardullo, David Seith, Johanna Walter.
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Connecticut's Jobs First Program
An Analysis of Welfare Leavers
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2000. Laura Melton, Dan Bloom.
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The Experiences of Welfare Recipients Who Find Jobs
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U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, U.S. Department of Education.
2000. Karin Martinson.
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Four-Year Impacts of Ten Programs on Employment Stability and Earnings Growth
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U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, U.S. Department of Education.
2000. Stephen Freedman.
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Do Mandates Matter?
The Effects of a Mandate to Enter a Welfare-to-Work Program
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U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, U.S. Department of Education.
2000. Jean Tansey Knab, Johannes M. Bos, Daniel Friedlander, Joanna W. Weissman.
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Parenting and Providing
The Impact of Parents' Fair Share on Paternal Involvement
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2000. Virginia Knox, Cindy Redcross.
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Working and Earning
The Impact of Parents' Fair Share on Low-Income Fathers' Employment
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2000. John M. Martinez, Cynthia Miller.
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Reforming Welfare and Rewarding Work
A Summary of the Final Report on the Minnesota Family Investment Program
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2000. Virginia Knox, Cynthia Miller, Lisa A. Gennetian.
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Reforming Welfare and Rewarding Work
Final Report on the Minnesota Family Investment Program
Volume 1 Effects on Adults
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2000. Cynthia Miller, Virginia Knox, Lisa A. Gennetian, Martey Dodoo, Jo Anna Hunter, Cindy Redcross.
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Final Report on the Implementation and Impacts of the Minnesota Family Investment Program in Ramsey County
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2000. Patricia Auspos, Cynthia Miller, Jo Anna Hunter.
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Reforming Welfare and Rewarding Work
Final Report on the Minnesota Family Investment Program Volume 2 Effects on Children
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2000. Lisa Gennetian, Cynthia Miller.
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What Works Best for Whom
Impacts of 20 Welfare-to-Work Programs by Subgroup
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U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, U.S. Department of Education.
2000. Charles Michalopoulos, Christine Schwartz with Diana Adams-Ciardullo.
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Oklahoma City's ET & E Program
Two-Year Implementation, Participation, Cost, and Impact Findings
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U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, U.S. Department of Education.
2000. Laura Storto, Gayle Hamilton, Christine Schwartz, Susan Scrivener.
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Implementation, Participation Patterns, Costs, and Two-Year Impacts of the Detroit Welfare-to-Work Program
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U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, U.S. Department of Education.
2000. Mary Farrell with Gayle Hamilton, Christine Schwartz, Laura Storto.
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The Self-Sufficiency Project at 36 Months
Effects of a Financial Work Incentive on Employment and Income (SRDC)
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Social Research and Demonstration Corporation.
2000. Charles Michalopoulos, David Card, Lisa Gennetian, Kristen Harknett, Philip K. Robins.
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The Self-Sufficiency Project at 36 Months
Effects on Children of a Program That Increased Parental Employment and Income (SRDC)
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Social Research and Demonstration Corporation.
2000. Pamela Morris, Charles Michalopoulos.
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Do Mandatory Welfare-to-Work Programs Affect the Well-Being of Children?
A Synthesis of Child Research Conducted as Part of the National Evaluation of Welfare-to-Work Strategies
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U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, U.S. Department of Education.
2000. Gayle Hamilton.
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Evaluating Alternative Welfare-to-Work Approaches
Two-Year Impacts for Eleven Programs
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U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, U.S. Department of Education.
2000. Stephen Freedman, Daniel Friedlander, Gayle Hamilton, JoAnn Rock, Marisa Mitchell, Jodi Nudelman, Amanda Schweder, Laura Storto.
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Impacts on Young Children and Their Families Two Years After Enrollment
Findings From the Child Outcomes Study
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U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, U.S. Department of Education.
2000. Martha J. Zaslow, Sharon M. McGroder, Kristin A. Moore. Child Trends.
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Jobs First
Implementation and Early Impacts of Connecticut's Welfare Reform Initiative
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2000. Dan Bloom, Laura Melton, Charles Michalopoulos, Susan Scrivener, Johanna Walter.
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The Responsible Fatherhood Curriculum
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2000. Eileen Hayes with Kay Sherwood.
Developed as part of MDRC’s Parents’ Fair Share Demonstration, the Responsible Fatherhood Curriculum is intended to help fathers more effectively fulfill their roles as parents, partners, and workers.
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Does SSP Plus Increase Employment?
The Effect of Adding Services to the Self-Sufficiency Project's Financial Incentives
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Social Research and Demonstration Corporation.
1999. Gail Quets, Philip K. Robins, Elsie C. Pan, Charles Michalopoulos, David Card.
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When Financial Work Incentives Pay for Themselves
Early Findings from the Self-Sufficiency Project's Applicant Study
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Social Research and Demonstration Corporation.
1999. David Card, Charles Michalopoulos, Philip K. Robins.
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The Family Transition Program
Implementation and Three-Year Impacts of Florida's Initial Time-Limited Welfare Program
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1999. Dan Bloom, Mary Farrell, James J. Kemple, Nandita Verma.
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New Hope for People with Low Incomes
Two-Year Results of a Program to Reduce Poverty and Reform Welfare
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1999. Johannes M. Bos, Aletha C. Huston, Robert C. Granger, Greg J. Duncan, Thomas W. Brock, Vonnie C. McLoyd with Danielle Crosby, Veronica Fellerath, Christina Gibson, Katherine Magnuson, Rashmita Mistry, Susan M. Poglinco, Jennifer Romich, Ana M. Ventura.
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Fathers' Fair Share
Helping Poor Men Manage Child Support and Fatherhood
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Russell Sage Foundation.
1999. Earl Johnson, Ann Levine, Fred Doolittle.
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Connecticut Post-Time Limit Tracking Study
Six-Month Survey Results
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1999. Jo Anna Hunter-Manns, Dan Bloom.
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Explaining the Minnesota Family Investment Program's Impacts by Housing Status
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1998. Cynthia Miller.
An evaluation of the Minnesota Family Investment Program (MFIP), the state’s welfare waiver program, found that the program produced substantially larger increases in employment and earnings among welfare recipients living in public or subsidized housing than among recipients in private housing. This paper examines several possible reasons that may account for these findings, including differences in characteristics between the two groups of recipients, differences in their proximity to jobs, differences in residential stability, which might aid in the transition to work, and interactions between MFIP's work incentives and the public/subsidized housing rent rules. The evidence, although indirect, suggests that interactions between MFIP rules and the rent rules in public housing helped to produce larger employment impacts for residents in public or subsidized housing.
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Connecticut Post-Time Limit Tracking Study
Three-Month Survey Results
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1998. Jo Anna Hunter-Manns, Dan Bloom, Richard Hendra, Johanna Walter.
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When Financial Incentives Encourage Work
Complete 18-Month Findings from the Self-Sufficiency Project
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Social Research and Demonstration Corporation.
1998. Winston Lin, Phillip K. Robins, David Card, Kristen Harknett, Susanna Lui-Gurr.
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Building Opportunities, Enforcing Obligations
Implementation and Interim Impacts of Parents' Fair Share
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1998. Fred Doolittle, Virginia Knox, Cynthia Miller, Sharon Rowser.
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An Early Look at Community Service Jobs in the New Hope Demonstration
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1998. Susan M. Poglinco, Julian Brash, Robert C. Granger.
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Implementation, Participation Patterns, Costs, and Two-Year Impacts of the Portland (Oregon) Welfare-to-Work Program
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U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, U.S. Department of Education.
1998. Susan Scrivener, Gayle Hamilton, Mary Farrell, Stephen Freedman, Daniel Friedlander, Marisa Mitchell, Jodi Nudelman, Christine Schwartz.
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Working with Low-Income Cases
Lessons for the Child Support Enforcement System from Parents' Fair Share
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1998. Fred Doolittle, Suzanne Lynn.
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Parenting Behavior in a Sample of Young Mothers in Poverty
Results of the New Chance Observational Study
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1998. Martha J. Zaslow and Carolyn A. Eldred, Editors.
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The Family Transition Program
Implementation and Interim Impacts of Florida's Initial Time-Limited Welfare Program
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1998. Dan Bloom, Mary Farrell, James J. Kemple, Nandita Verma.
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Do Work Incentives Have Unintended Consequences?
Measuring "Entry Effects" in the Self-Sufficiency Project
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Social Research and Demonstration Corporation.
1998. Gordon Berlin, Wendy Bancroft, David Card, Winston Lin, Philip K. Robins.
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Jobs First
Early Implementation of Connecticut's Welfare's Reform Initiative
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1998. Dan Bloom, Mary Andes, Claudia Nicholson.
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The Family Transition Program
Implementation and Early Impacts of Florida's Time-Limited Welfare Program
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1997. Dan Bloom, James J. Kemple, Robin Rogers-Dillon.
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Making Welfare Work and Work Pay
Implementation and 18-Month Impacts of the Minnesota Family Investment Program
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1997. Cynthia Miller, Virginia Knox, Patricia Auspos, Jo Anna Hunter-Manns, Alan Orenstein.
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Who Got New Hope?
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1997. Michael Wiseman.
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How Important are "Entry Effects" in Financial Incentive Programs for Welfare Recipients?
Experimental Evidence from the Self-Sufficiency Project
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Social Research and Demonstration Corporation.
1997. David Card, Philip Robins, Winston Lin.
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New Chance
Final Report on a Comprehensive Program for Young Mothers in Poverty and Their Children
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1997. Janet C. Quint, Johannes M. Bos, Denise F. Polit.
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Evaluating Two Welfare-to-Work Program Approaches
Two Year Findings on the Labor Force Attachment and Human Capital Development Programs in Three Sites
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U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, U.S. Department of Education.
1997. Gayle Hamilton, Thomas Brock, Mary Farrell, Daniel Friedlander, Kristen Harknett with JoAnna Hunter-Manns, Johanna Walter, Joanna Weisman.
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Early Data on the Implementation of Connecticut's Jobs First Program
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1997. Mary Andes, Dan Bloom, Claudia Nicholson.
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Creating New Hope
Implementation of a Program to Reduce Poverty and Reform Welfare
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1997. Thomas Brock, Fred Doolittle, Veronica Fellerath, Michael Wiseman with David Greenberg and Robinson Hollister, Jr.
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From Welfare to Work Among Lone Parents in Britain
Lessons for America
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1996. James Riccio.
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Low-Income Parents and the Parents' Fair Share Demonstration
An Early Qualitative Look at Low-Income Noncustodial Parents (NCPs) and How One Policy Initiative Has Attempted to Improve Their Ability to Pay Child Support
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1996. Earl Johnson, Fred Doolittle.
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The New Hope Offer
Participants in the New Hope Demonstration Discuss Work, Family, and Self-Sufficiency
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1996. Dudley Benoit.
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When Work Pays Better Than Welfare
A Summary of the Self-Sufficiency Project's Implementation, Focus Group, and Initial 18-month Impact Reports
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Social Research and Demonstration Corporation.
1996.
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Do Financial Incentives Encourage Welfare Recipients to Work?
Initial 18-Month Findings from the Self-Sufficiency Project
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Social Research and Demonstration Corporation.
1996. David Card, Philip K. Robins with Tod Mijanocich, Winston Lin.
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Adult Education for People on AFDC
A Synthesis of Research
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U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, U.S. Department of Education.
1995. Edward Pauly with Cristina DiMeo.
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Early Findings on Program Impacts in Three Sites
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U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, U.S. Department of Education.
1995. Stephen Freedman, Daniel Friedlander.
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How Well Are They Faring?
AFDC Families with Preschool-Aged Children in Atlanta at the Outset of the JOBS Evaluation.
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U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, U.S. Department of Education.
1995. Kristin A. Moore, Martha J. Zaslow, Mary Jo Coiro, Suzanne M. Miller, Ellen B. Magenheim.
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Monthly Participation Rates in Three Sites and Factors Affecting Participation Levels in Welfare-to-Work Programs
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U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, U.S. Department of Education.
1995. Gayle Hamilton.
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The Family Transition Program
An Early Implementation Report on Florida's Time-Limited Welfare Initiative
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1995. Dan Bloom.
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MFIP
An Early Report on Minnesota's Approach to Welfare Reform
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1995. Virginia Knox, Amy Brown, Winston Lin.
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The Struggle for Self-Sufficiency
Participants in the Self-Sufficiency Program Talk About Work, Welfare, and Their Futures
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Social Research and Demonstration Corporation.
1995. Wendy Bancroft, Sheila Currie Vernon.
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Creating an Alternative to Welfare
First-Year Findings on the Implementation, Welfare Impacts, and Costs of the Self-Sufficiency Project
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Social Research and Demonstration Corporation.
1995. Tod Mijanovich, David Long.
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New Chance
The Cost Analysis of a Comprehensive Program for Disadvantaged Young Mothers and Their Children
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1994. Barbara L. Fink with Mary E. Farrell.
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Making Work Pay Better Than Welfare
An Early Look at the Self-Sufficiency Project
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Social Research Demonstration Corporation.
1994. Susanna Lui-Gurr, Sheila Currie Vernon, Tod Mijanovich.
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New Chance
Interim Findings on a Comprehensive Program for Disadvantaged Young Mothers and Their Children
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1994. Janet C. Quint, Denise F. Polit, Hans Bos, George Cave.
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Matching Opportunities to Obligations
Lessons for Child Support Reform from the Parents' Fair Share Pilot Phase
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1994. Dan Bloom, Kay Sherwood.
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The JOBS Evaluation
Early Lessons from Seven Sites
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U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, U.S. Department of Education.
1994. Gayle Hamilton, Thomas Brock with Jeffrey Farkas.
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Lives of Promise, Lives of Pain
Young Mothers After New Chance
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1994. Janet C. Quint and Judith S. Musick with Joyce A. Ladner.
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Child Support Enforcement
A Case Study
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1993. Dan Bloom with Bridget Dixon.
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Learning from the Voices of Mothers
Single Mothers' Perceptions of the Trade-offs Between Welfare and Work
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1993. LaDonna Pavetti.
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Caring and Paying
What Fathers and Mothers Say About Child Support
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1992. Frank Furstenberg, Jr., Kay Sherwood, Mercer Sullivan.
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New Chance
Implementing a Comprehensive Program for Disadvantaged Young Mothers and Their Children
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1991. Janet C. Quint, Barbara L. Fink, Sharon L. Rowser.
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New Chance
Lessons from the Pilot Phase
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1989. Janet C. Quint, Cynthia A. Guy.
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