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    Designing a Marriage Education Demonstration and Evaluation for Low-Income Married Couples
Working Paper
    2008. Virginia Knox and David Fein.

This working paper introduces the Supporting Healthy Marriage evaluation, the first large-scale, multisite experiment that is testing voluntary marriage education programs for low-income married couples with children in eight sites across the country. The year-long programs consist of a series of marriage education workshops with additional family support services and referrals.
 
    Designing and Administering a Wage-Paying Community Service Employment Program Under TANF
Some Considerations and Choices
    1999. Kay Sherwood.

 
    Do Financial Incentives Encourage Welfare Recipients to Work?
Initial 18-Month Findings from the Self-Sufficiency Project
    Social Research and Demonstration Corporation.
1996. David Card, Philip K. Robins with Tod Mijanocich, Winston Lin.

 
    Do Mandates Matter?
The Effects of a Mandate to Enter a Welfare-to-Work Program
    U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, U.S. Department of Education.
2000. Jean Tansey Knab, Johannes M. Bos, Daniel Friedlander, Joanna W. Weissman.

 
    Do Mandatory Welfare-to-Work Programs Affect the Well-Being of Children?
A Synthesis of Child Research Conducted as Part of the National Evaluation of Welfare-to-Work Strategies
    U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, U.S. Department of Education.
2000. Gayle Hamilton.

 
    Do Work Incentives Have Unintended Consequences?
Measuring "Entry Effects" in the Self-Sufficiency Project
    Social Research and Demonstration Corporation.
1998. Gordon Berlin, Wendy Bancroft, David Card, Winston Lin, Philip K. Robins.

 
    Documentation of the Data Sources and Analytical Methods Used in the Benefit-Cost Analysis of the EPP/EWEP Program in San Diego
    1985. David Long, Virginia Knox.

 
    Does Child Care Assistance Matter?
The Effects of Welfare and Employment Programs on Child Care for Pre-School-Aged Children
Working Paper
    2001. Danielle A. Crosby, Lisa A. Gennetian, Aletha C. Huston.

 
    Does Child Care Assistance Matter?
The Effects of Welfare and Employment Programs on Child Care
Working Paper
    2001. Lisa A. Gennetian, Danielle A. Crosby, Aletha C. Huston.

 
    Does Making Work Pay Still Pay?
An Update on the Effects of Four Earnings Supplement Programs on Employment, Earnings, and Income
    2005. Charles Michalopoulos.

Four programs that supplemented the earnings of low-income adults increased employment, earnings, and income — particularly for the most disadvantaged — but these effects generally faded after the programs ended.
 
    Does SSP Plus Increase Employment?
The Effect of Adding Services to the Self-Sufficiency Project's Financial Incentives
    Social Research and Demonstration Corporation.
1999. Gail Quets, Philip K. Robins, Elsie C. Pan, Charles Michalopoulos, David Card.

 
    Does Training for the Disadvantaged Work?
Evidence from the National JTPA Study
    Urban Institute.
1996. Larry L. Orr, Howard S. Bloom, Stephen H. Bell, Fred Doolittle, Winston Lin.

 
    Doing What Counts
Design Principles for a Study on Teacher Incentives
    2006. Jason C. Snipes, Janet C. Quint, Shelley Rappaport, and Lynne Steuerle Schofield.

This paper, produced by MDRC and the Laboratory for Student Success at Temple University, describes design principles for a study about the use of incentives to recruit and retain high-quality teachers for underperforming schools.
 



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