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    How Effective Are Different Welfare-to-Work Approaches?
Five-Year Adult and Child Impacts for Eleven Programs
    U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, U.S. Department of Education.
2001. Gayle Hamilton, Stephen Freedman, Lisa Gennetian, Charles Michalopoulos, Johanna Walter, Diana Adams-Ciardullo, Anna Gassman-Pines, Sharon McGroder, Martha Zaslow, Surjeet Ahluwalia, Jennifer Brooks with Electra Small, Bryan Ricchetti.

How best to help people move from welfare to work — particularly whether an employment-focused approach or an education-focused approach is more effective — has been a subject of long-standing debate. This report summary, which describes the long-term effects of 11 different mandatory welfare-to-work programs for single parents and their children, takes a major step toward resolving this debate.
 
    Exceptions to the Rule
The Implementation of 24-Month Time-Limit Extensions in W-2
    2001. Susan Gooden, Fred Doolittle.

 
    Career Academies
Impacts on Students’ Initial Transitions to Post-Secondary Education and Employment
    2001. James J. Kemple.

 
    Is Work Enough?
The Experiences of Current and Former Welfare Mothers Who Work
    2001. Denise F. Polit, Rebecca Widom, Kathryn Edin, Stan Bowie, Andrew S. London, Ellen K. Scott, Abel Valenzuela.

 
    Complaint Resolution in the Context of Welfare Reform
How W-2 Settles Disputes
    2001. Suzanne Lynn.

 
    Matching Applicants with Services
Initial Assessments in the Milwaukee County W-2 Program
    2001. Susan Gooden, Fred Doolittle, Ben Glispie.

 
    The Challenge of Helping Low-Income Fathers Support Their Children
Final Lessons from Parents’ Fair Share
    2001. Cynthia Miller, Virginia Knox.

 
    Evaluating the Accelerated Schools Approach
A Look at Early Implementation and Impacts on Student Achievement in Eight Elementary Schools
    2001. Howard S. Bloom, Sandra Ham, Laura Melton, Julieanne O'Brien.

 
    Promoting Employment in Public Housing Communities
Learning from the Jobs-Plus Demonstration
Policy Brief
    2001. James A. Riccio, Steven Bliss.

 
    Opening Doors to Earning Credentials
Impressions of Community College Access and Retention from Low-Wage Workers
    2001. Lisa Matus-Grossman, Susan Tinsley Gooden.

 
    When Financial Incentives Pay for Themselves
Interim Findings From the Self-Sufficiency Project's Applicant Study
    Social Research and Demonstration Corporation.
2001. Charles Michalopoulos, Tracey Hoy.

 
    Measuring the Impacts of Whole-School Reforms
Methodological Lessons from an Evaluation of Accelerated Schools
    2001. Howard S. Bloom.

 
    Extending the Reach of Randomized Social Experiments
New Directions in Evaluations of American Welfare-to-Work and Employment Initiatives
    2001. James A Riccio, Howard S. Bloom.

 
    "You have to push it — who's gonna raise your kids?"
Situating Child Care and Child Care Subsidy Use in the Daily Routines of Lower-Income Families
Working Paper
    2001. Edward D. Lowe and Thomas S. Weisner.

 
    My Children Come First
Welfare-Reliant Women's Post-TANF Views of Work-Family Trade-offs and Marriage
Working Paper
    2001. Ellen K. Scott, Kathryn Edin, Andrew S. London, and Joan Maya Mazelis.

 
    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.

 
    A Meta-Analysis of Government Sponsored Training Programs
    University of Maryland Baltimore County.
2001. David H. Greenberg, Charles Michalopoulos, Philip K. Robins.

 
    "I Did It for Myself"
Studying Efforts to Increase Adult Learner Persistence in Library Literacy Programs
    2001. John P. Comings, Sondra Cuban, Johannes M. Bos, Catherine J. Taylor.

 
    A Review of Child Care Policies in Experimental Welfare and Employment Programs
Working Paper
    2001. Lisa A. Gennetian, Anna Gassman-Pines, Aletha C. Huston, Danielle A. Crosby, Young Eun Chang, Edward D. Lowe.

 
    Work Support Centers
A Concept Paper
    2001. John W. Wallace.

 
    Modeling the Performance of Welfare-to-Work Programs
The Effects of Program Management and Services, Economic Environment, and Client Characteristics
    2001. Howard S. Bloom, Carolyn J. Hill, James Riccio.

 
    Sustained Employment and Earnings Growth
New Experimental Evidence on Financial Work Incentives and Pre-Employment Services
    2001. Charles Michalopoulos.

 
    The 30-Year Tug-of-War
Can Reform Resolve Welfare Policy's Thorniest Conundrum?
Policy Brief
    The Brookings Institution.
2001. Gordon Berlin.

 
    SSP Plus at 36 Months
Effects of Adding Employment Services to Financial Work Incentives
    Social Research and Demonstration Corporation.
2001. Ying Lei, Charles Michalopoulos.

 
    Evaluating Two Approaches to Case Management
Implementation, Participation Patterns, Costs, and Three-Year Impacts of the Columbus Welfare-to-Work Program
    U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, U.S. Department of Education.
2001. Susan Scrivener, Johanna Walter with Thomas Brock, Gayle Hamilton.

This report, from the National Evaluation of Welfare-to-Work Strategies, examines the relative effectiveness of traditional versus integrated case-management approaches in welfare-to-work programs.
 
    A Regression-Based Strategy for Defining Subgroups in a Social Experiment
    2001. James J. Kemple, Jason C. Snipes with Howard Bloom.

 
    The Health of Poor Urban Women
Findings from the Project on Devolution and Urban Change
    2001. Denise F. Polit, Andrew S. London, John M. Martinez.

 
    How Welfare and Work Policies Affect Employment and Income
A Synthesis of Research
    2001. Dan Bloom, Charles Michalopoulos.

This monograph synthesizes the results of rigorous studies of 29 welfare reform initiatives evaluated by MDRC over the past 15 years. It examines how three policies that form the core of most state's current welfare programs — mandatory employment services, earnings supplements, and time limits on welfare receipt — affect employment, welfare receipt, and income.
 
    Opening Doors
Expanding Educational Opportunities for Low-Income Workers
    Published with the National Governors Association Center for Best Practices.
2001. Susan Golonka, Lisa Matus-Grossman.

 
    Building New Partnerships for Employment
Collaboration Among Agencies and Public Housing Residents in the Jobs-Plus Demonstration
    2001. Linda Y. Kato, James A. Riccio with Jennifer Dodge.

 
    The Neighborhood Jobs Initiative
An Early Report on the Vision and Challenges of Bringing an Employment Focus to a Community-Building Initiative
    2001. Frieda Molina, Laura C. Nelson.

 
    An Evaluability Assessment of the Toyota Families in Schools Program
    2001. Janet Quint with Anne Sweeney.

 
    Welfare, Housing, and Employment
Learning from the Jobs-Plus Demonstration
Policy Brief
    2001.

 
    Beyond Work First
How to Help Hard-to-Employ Individuals Get Jobs and Succeed in the Workforce
    2001. Amy Brown.

This "how-to" guide presents promising practices for identifying and assisting hard-to-employ people by distilling information and lessons from relevant research and the experiences of rehabilitation, clinical treatment, and welfare-to-work providers.
 
    Monitoring Outcomes for Cuyahoga County’s Welfare Leavers
How Are They Faring?
    2001. Nandita Verma, Claudia Coulton with Richard Hendra, Engel Polousky.

 
    Three-Year Impacts of Connecticut’s Jobs First Welfare Reform Initiative
    2001. Richard Hendra, Charles Michalopoulos, Dan Bloom.

 
    How Welfare and Work Policies Affect Children
A Synthesis of Research
    2001. Pamela A. Morris, Aletha C. Huston, Greg J. Duncan, Danielle A. Crosby, Johannes M. Bos.

This monograph assesses the effects on children of three policies that now form part of many states' current welfare packages: providing financial supports to working families, requiring single parents to work or to participate in work-related activities, and putting time limits on welfare benefits.
 
    Social Service Organizations and Welfare Reform
    2001. Barbara Fink, Rebecca Widom with Richard Beaulaurier, Gilbert Contreras, Lorna Dilley, Rebecca Joyce Kissane.

 
    Beyond Welfare and Work First
Building Services and Systems to Support California's Working Poor and Hard-to-Place
    2001. Steven Bliss.

 
    Post-TANF Food Stamp and Medicaid Benefits
Factors That Aid or Impede Their Receipt
    2001. Janet Quint, Rebecca Widom with Lindsay Moore.

 



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