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Virginia Knox
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The Supporting Healthy Marriage Evaluation
Early Lessons from the Implementation of a Relationship and Marriage Skills Program for Low-Income Married Couples
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2010. Jennifer Miller Gaubert, Virginia Knox, Desiree Principe Alderson, Christopher Dalton, Kate Fletcher, and Meghan McCormick.
An important first hurdle for voluntary programs is recruiting and retaining eligible participants. This report describes how ten Supporting Healthy Marriage programs focused on developing effective marketing strategies, keeping couples engaged in the program, and building management systems. These efforts resulted in encouraging early levels of participation by low-income couples.
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Policies That Strengthen Fatherhood and Family Relationships
What Do We Know and What Do We Need to Know?
Working Paper
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2010. Virginia Knox, Philip A. Cowan, Carolyn Pape Cowan, and Elana Bildner.
This working paper, prepared for a conference sponsored by the Institute for Research on Poverty at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, reviews evidence about the effectiveness of two strategies to strengthen family relationships and fathers’ involvement with their children: fatherhood programs aimed at disadvantaged noncustodial fathers and relationship skills programs for parents who are together.
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Designing a Marriage Education Demonstration and Evaluation for Low-Income Married Couples
Working Paper
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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.
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Welfare Reform, Work, and Child Care
The Role of Informal Care in the Lives of Low-Income Women and Children
Policy Brief
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2003. Virginia W. Knox, Andrew S. London, Ellen K. Scott with Susan Blank.
Drawing on ethnographic interviews, this policy brief describes the patchwork child care arrangements made by low-income parents and discusses implications for policies that would promote the dual objectives of child well-being and parental employment.
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Staying Single
The Effects of Welfare Reform Policies on Marriage and Cohabitation
Working Paper
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2003. Lisa A. Gennetian and Virginia Knox.
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How Welfare and Work Policies for Parents Affect Adolescents
A Synthesis of Research
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2002. Lisa A. Gennetian, Greg J. Duncan, Virginia W. Knox, Wanda G. Vargas, Elizabeth Clark-Kauffman, Andrew S. London.
The latest research synthesis from the Next Generation project takes a closer look at troubling findings regarding the effects of welfare and work programs on the teenaged children of program enrollees.
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Welfare Policies Matter for Children and Youth
Lessons for TANF Reauthorization
Policy Brief
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2002. Pamela Morris, Virginia Knox, Lisa A. Gennetian.
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The Challenge of Helping Low-Income Fathers Support Their Children
Final Lessons from Parents’ Fair Share
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2001. Cynthia Miller, Virginia Knox.
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Parenting and Providing
The Impact of Parents' Fair Share on Paternal Involvement
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2000. Virginia Knox, Cindy Redcross.
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Reforming Welfare and Rewarding Work
A Summary of the Final Report on the Minnesota Family Investment Program
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2000. Virginia Knox, Cynthia Miller, Lisa A. Gennetian.
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Building Opportunities, Enforcing Obligations
Implementation and Interim Impacts of Parents' Fair Share
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1998. Fred Doolittle, Virginia Knox, Cynthia Miller, Sharon Rowser.
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Making Welfare Work and Work Pay
Implementation and 18-Month Impacts of the Minnesota Family Investment Program
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1997. Cynthia Miller, Virginia Knox, Patricia Auspos, Jo Anna Hunter-Manns, Alan Orenstein.
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MFIP
An Early Report on Minnesota's Approach to Welfare Reform
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1995. Virginia Knox, Amy Brown, Winston Lin.
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West Virginia
Final Report on the Community Work Experience Demonstrations
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1986. Daniel Friendlander, Marjorie Erickson, Gayle Hamilton, Virginia Knox.
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Documentation of the Data Sources and Analytical Methods Used in the Benefit-Cost Analysis of the EPP/EWEP Program in San Diego
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1985. David Long, Virginia Knox.
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