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The work alternative: Welfare reform and the realities of the job market, edited by Demetra Smith Nightingale and Robert H. Haveman. Washington, DC: The Urban Institute Press, 1995, 218 pp., $24.95 cloth

Mayer, Susan E. - In: Journal of Policy Analysis and Management 15 (1996) 2, pp. 287-290

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008646065

Cognitive and non-cognitive predictors of success in adult education programs: Evidence from experimental data with low-income welfare recipients

Leininger, Lindsey Jeanne; Kalil, Ariel - In: Journal of Policy Analysis and Management 27 (2008) 3, pp. 521-535

Using data on approximately 2,000 low-income welfare recipients in a three-site random-assignment intervention conducted in the early 1990s (the NEWWS), we examine the role of cognitive and non-cognitive factors in moderating experimental impacts of an adult education training program for women...

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Myth and reality: The causes and persistence of poverty

Corcoran, Mary; Duncan, Greg; Gurin, Gerald; Gurin, Patricia - In: Journal of Policy Analysis and Management 4 (1984) 4, pp. 516-536

Policies directed at alleviating poverty rest on a set of assumptions regarding the demographic composition of the poor and the psychological dispositions of poor individuals. Evidence from a long-term study of a representative sample of low-income individuals shows that poverty is very...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008644449

Succeeding generations: On the effects of investments in children, by Robert Haveman and Barbara Wolfe. New York: Russell Sage Foundation, 1994, 331 pp., $34.95 cloth

Duncan, Greg J. - In: Journal of Policy Analysis and Management 14 (1995) 4, pp. 639-640

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