While the general argument that it is easier and more cost-effective to prevent conflicts before the outbreak of violence has considerable attraction, a rigorous approach to estimating the cost and benefits of this policy is still lacking. The objective of this study is to contribute to the...

As nonmarital childbearing has increased, so has concern for the attendant consequences. Mathematica’s evaluation of the Building Strong Families (BSF) project, the centerpiece of a broader policy strategy to support healthy marriage, is determining whether well-designed interventions can help...

We assess the prospects of China's future growth performance in two steps. The first step is to project the potential growth path by determining whether past successes were generated by economic experimentation that produced non-capitalist institutional innovations (e.g. incentive contracts to...

This paper was prepared for <I>Vision 2004: What Is the Future of Marriage?</I>, a special volume published by the National Council on Family Relations in February 2004. The paper describes three studies related to the Building Strong Families (BSF) project designed to address whether interventions to...</i>