Tells the story of program development in the early years, examining the nature and extent of implementation in key program areas and the quality of child development services for the 17 programs participating in the national evaluation. Reviews evolving program approaches, family engagement,...

The precision of point estimators is often characterized through approximation. Practical evaluation of the adequacy of an approximation depends on whether one is interested in (1) summary descriptions of a fixed set of variance estimates or confidence interval widths, or (2) formal inference...

Describes the administrative framework and key components of a statewide transitional employment program for hard-to-employ TANF recipients nearing the time limit. Notes that program success requires program administrators and staff to think “outside the box†and concludes that clients...

Describes the design of an evaluation to study key outcomes for people with disabilities who participate in innovative state projects that promote employment, particularly those who receive Supplemental Security Income or Social Security Disability Insurance. The strategies involve different...

Examines the importance of good administrative data to Medicaid and SCHIP programs, as well as the cost to states of not improving their administrative files. Also suggests ways that states can improve their data files to make them better tools for guiding policy decisions.

Summarizes existing survey instruments that focus on welfare populations, especially those with sections covering barriers to employability and self-sufficiency, and recommends measures and questions to include in a new instrument that states and counties can use to conduct telephone surveys of...