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Mary Farrell
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Subsidizing Employment Opportunities for Low-Income Families
A Review of State Employment Programs Created Through the TANF Emergency Fund
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U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Administration for Children and Families, Office of Planning, Research and Evaluation (OPRE)
2011. Mary Farrell, Sam Elkin, Joseph Broadus, and Dan Bloom.
In 2009-2010, states placed more than 250,000 people in subsidized jobs using the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) Emergency Fund established by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act. This report reviews the experience of the largest subsidized employment initiative in the country since the 1970s.
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A Two-Generational Child-Focused Program Enhanced with Employment Services
Eighteen-Month Impacts from the Kansas and Missouri Sites of the Enhanced Services for the Hard-to-Employ Demonstration and Evaluation Project
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2011. JoAnn Hsueh, Erin Jacobs, and Mary Farrell.
The report offers implementation and early impact findings from a random assignment evaluation of two Early Head Start programs that were enhanced with formalized services to proactively address parents’ employment, educational, and self-sufficiency needs.
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Benefit-Cost Findings for Three Programs in the Employment Retention and Advancement (ERA) Project
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2010. Cindy Redcross, Victoria Deitch, and Mary Farrell.
This report examines the financial benefits and costs of three different programs in the national Employment Retention and Advancement project, sponsored by the federal Administration for Children and Families, that have increased employment and earnings among current and former welfare recipients.
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Welfare Time Limits
An Update on State Policies, Implementation, and Effects on Families
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Published with the Lewin Group.
2008. Mary Farrell, Sarah Rich, Lesley Turner, David Seith, and Dan Bloom.
One of the most controversial features of the 1990s welfare reforms was the imposition of time limits on benefit receipt. This comprehensive review, written by The Lewin Group and MDRC, includes analyses of administrative data reported by states to the federal government, visits to several states, and a literature review.
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The Interaction of Child Support and TANF
Evidence from Samples of Current and Former Welfare Recipients
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2005. Cynthia Miller, Mary Farrell, Maria Cancian, Daniel R. Meyer.
This study suggests that child support can be an important income source and can help welfare recipients move toward self-sufficiency. More generous distribution rules increase payment rates, but many parents still do not understand the distribution rules.
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Welfare Time Limits
State Policies, Implementation, and Effects on Families
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U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
2002. Dan Bloom, Mary Farrell, Barbara Fink with Diana Adams-Ciardullo.
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Implementation, Participation Patterns, Costs, and Two-Year Impacts of the Detroit Welfare-to-Work Program
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U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, U.S. Department of Education.
2000. Mary Farrell with Gayle Hamilton, Christine Schwartz, Laura Storto.
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The Family Transition Program
Implementation and Three-Year Impacts of Florida's Initial Time-Limited Welfare Program
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1999. Dan Bloom, Mary Farrell, James J. Kemple, Nandita Verma.
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Implementation, Participation Patterns, Costs, and Two-Year Impacts of the Portland (Oregon) Welfare-to-Work Program
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U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, U.S. Department of Education.
1998. Susan Scrivener, Gayle Hamilton, Mary Farrell, Stephen Freedman, Daniel Friedlander, Marisa Mitchell, Jodi Nudelman, Christine Schwartz.
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The Family Transition Program
Implementation and Interim Impacts of Florida's Initial Time-Limited Welfare Program
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1998. Dan Bloom, Mary Farrell, James J. Kemple, Nandita Verma.
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Evaluating Two Welfare-to-Work Program Approaches
Two Year Findings on the Labor Force Attachment and Human Capital Development Programs in Three Sites
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U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, U.S. Department of Education.
1997. Gayle Hamilton, Thomas Brock, Mary Farrell, Daniel Friedlander, Kristen Harknett with JoAnna Hunter-Manns, Johanna Walter, Joanna Weisman.
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