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 …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008802522

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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