Search Results - subject:"Social program evaluation"

Improved Targeting of Social Programs: An Application to a State Job Coaching Program for Adults with Intellectual Disabilities

McInnes, Melayne; Ozturk, Orgul; McDermott, Suzanne; … - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013

In a climate of flat or shrinking budgets, can programs reallocate existing resources to improve efficiency? We illustrate the potential for gains from redirecting resources using data from a state job coaching program that is designed to increase employment among adults with intellectual...

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Use and non-use of research evaluation A literature review

van der Most, Frank - Centre for Innovation, Research and Competence in the … - 2011

This paper reviews the literature in research evaluation and in social program evaluation on the topic of use and … the existing literature for a study of use and effects. The paper also draws on literature from social program evaluation …

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Improved targeting of social programs : an application to a state job coaching program for adults with intellectual disabilities

McInnes, Melayne Louise Morgan; Ozturk, Orgul Demet; … - In: Eastern economic journal 42 (2016) 2, pp. 252-269

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Are Two Carrots Better Than One? The Effects of Adding Employment Services to Financial Incentive Programs for Welfare Recipients

Robins, Phillip K.; Michalopoulos, Charles; Foley, Kelly - Department of Economics, School of Business - 2006

The Self-Sufficiency Project (SSP) was a social experiment conducted in two provinces in Canada during the 1990s that tested a generous financial incentive program for welfare recipients. A little-known subsidiary experiment, called SSP Plus, had a three-way design that tested the incremental...

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Evaluation of the Neurodegenerative Conditions Coordinated Care Program (NCCCP) in Western Australia: Barriers to better service provision

Bahn, Susanne; Giles, Margaret - In: Evaluation and Program Planning 35 (2012) 1, pp. 40-46

This paper details a 2009–2010 evaluation of the Neurodegenerative Conditions Coordinated Care Program (NCCCP) commissioned by the Disability Services Commission (DSC) in Western Australia (WA). The program, run by the Multiple Sclerosis Society of WA (Inc.) provides in-home care and supports...

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Incorporating Nonmarket Time Into Benefit-Cost Analyses of Social Programs: An Application to the Self-Sufficiency Project

Robins, Phillip K.; Greenberg, David H. - Department of Economics, School of Business - 2006

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