Subgroup Impacts of Large-Scale Welfare Employment Programs.
Recent research has suggested that employment programs for welfare recipients may be most effective if resources a re systematically targeted on those most likely to remain on public assistance a long time. Data from a series of random assignment fiel d experiments testing low- to moderate-cost welfare employment program s are utilized to examine targeting alternatives for adult Aid to Families with Dependent Children recipients. The empirical evidence does not provide unqualified supp ort for narrow targeting of either the least or most dependent welfare groups and suggests that a choice among strategies may depend on the relative weights policymakers place on reducing welfare versus increasing family income. Copyright 1993 by MIT Press.
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1993
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Authors: | Friedlander, Daniel |
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The Review of Economics and Statistics. - MIT Press. - Vol. 75.1993, 1, p. 139-43
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