Poverty, Welfare, and Public Policy

, by Besharov, Douglas J.; Call, Douglas M.

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ISBN: 9781444335132 | 1444335138
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Copyright: 4/6/2010

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This book is a compilation of seminal articles on poverty and welfare in the United States that would work well as reading for graduate level courses in welfare, poverty, and evaluation. Articles from the Journal of Policy Analysis and Management - considered to be one of the leading forums for the exploration of poverty and welfare - presented in a single volume Presents high-quality research, performed over many years by a wide range of individuals and organizations Includes articles on poverty measurement, concentrated poverty, the relative merits of voluntary versus mandatory welfare-to-work policies, welfare dependency, and the impact of the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) program

American Poverty
The measure and meaning of poverty
How to Improve Poverty Measurement in the United States
Reconciliation of Income and Consumption Data in Poverty Measurement
The Relationship Between Income and Material Hardship
The Occurrence of Poverty Across the Life Cycle: Evidence from the PSID
A Re-Examination of Welfare States and Inequality in Rich Nations: How In-Kind Transfers and Indirect Taxes Change the Story
The demographics of poverty
For Richer or for Poorer: Marriage as an Anti-Poverty Strategy
Black Employment Problems: New Evidence, Old Questions
Declining Employment Among Young Black Less-Educated Men: The Role of Incarceration and Child Support
Labor Market Experiences of Low-Income Black Women in Middle-Class Suburbs: Evidence from a Survey of Gautreaux Program Participants Susan Popkin
Moving Into and Out of Poor Urban Areas
The Road to Welfare Reform
Welfare dependency
Determinants of Initial Entry onto Welfare by Young Women
The Interaction between Single Mothers' Living Arrangements and Welfare Participation,"
Moving Up, Moving Out, or Going Nowhere? A Study of the Employment Patterns of Young Women and the Implications for Welfare Mothers
Mandatory vs. voluntary programs
Welfare Reform and Mandatory Versus Voluntary Work: Policy Issue or Management Problem?
Should Workfare be Mandatory? What Research Says,"
Rejoinder to Mead
Can a Voluntary Welfare Program Change the Behavior of Welfare Recipients? New Evidence from Washington State's Family Independence Program (FIP),"
Four decades of experimentation
Fostering Research Excellence and Impacting Policy and Practice: The Welfare Reform Story
Demonstration Evaluations and Cost Neutrality: Using Caseload Models to Determine the Federal Cost Neutrality of New Jersey's REACH Demonstration
The Budgetary Implications of Welfare Reform: Lessons from Four State Initiatives,"
TANF and Its Aftermath
Did welfare reform "succeed"?
Alternative Measures of Economic Success among TANF Participants: Avoiding Poverty, Hardship, and Dependence on Public Assistance
Why Welfare Reform Succeeded
TANF's Results are More Mixed than is Often Understood
Response to Parrott and Sherman
Response to Mead
Welfare vs. work
Incentives, Challenges, and Dilemmas of TANF: A Case Study
Does It Pay to Move From Welfare to Work?
Does it Pay to Move From Welfare to Work? A Comment on Danziger, Heflin, Corcoran, Oltmans, and Wang
Does It Pay to Move from Welfare to Work? Reply to Robert Moffitt and Katie Winder
Child support and father's work
Child Support Enforcement: Programs and Policies, Impacts and Questions
Effective Child Support Policy for Low-Income Families: Evidence From Street Level Research
How Much Does Research Matter?
Congress Writes a Law: Research and Welfare Reform
Expertise, Advocacy, and Deliberation: Lessons from Welfare Reform
The Dissemination and Utilization of Welfare-to-Work Experiments in State Policymaking
Conclusion
From the Great Society to Continuous Improvement Government: Shifting from ‘Does it Work?' to ‘What Would Make it Better?'
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