"If you cannot measure it you cannot manage it" has become a mantra for public social service managers. At the same time outcome based management has had increasing popularity and attention because it apparently provides accountability under more flexible funding schemes. Further, it is more in...

Work requirements and time limits for welfare recipients, which are being implemented on a large scale as a result of the 1996 Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Act, will no doubt have repercussions for poor mothers and their children. It is not clear, however, exactly what these...

Building on recent work by Rosenzweig (1999), this paper re-examines the effect of AFDC benefits on early nonmarital childbearing. Unlike most previous work in this area, Rosenzweig finds a statistically significant and quantitatively large positive effect of AFDC benefits. Using data from the...