Notes that the mix of families remaining on cash assistance has changed, with child-only cases—in which only children are receiving assistance—becoming a growing portion of New Jersey’s welfare caseload. These cases grew from 17 percent of the state’s caseload in 1995 to 33...

In 1998, Mathematica began a five-year comprehensive evaluation of WFNJ to determine how clients were faring under the new reforms, how reform was implemented, and how communities responded to welfare reform and local challenges and opportunities. This report provides a brief summary of key...

This report summarizes the final design for the cross-site evaluation, including detailed information about data collection and analysis plans.

This report provides a brief summary of the cross-site evaluation design.

In an environment of finite public and private resources, decision makers want to understand interactions between public and private-sector philanthropic efforts and learn how to promote effective collaborations. This study examined how these efforts can complement each other to improve...

Policy interest in preparing prisoners for reentry has grown significantly in recent years, fueled in part by research showing that marital and parent-child relationships are at high risk of disruption during incarceration and reentry, and by research suggesting that healthy marriage is...

This toolkit is designed to help advocacy organizations, evaluators, and other groups collect and analyze data using the instruments and methods Mathematica used in its Consumer Voices for Coverage evaluation. It includes surveys of advocacy coalition members, interviews with policymakers, and...

This report describes planning and early implementation of home visiting programs in 15 states. The programs and report were funded by the Children's Bureau at the Administration for Children and Families in the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. The report describes the grantees, the...