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作者:Stone, D
作者单位:Dartmouth College
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作者:Danziger, S; Heflin, CM; Corcoran, ME; Oltmans, E; Wang, HC
作者单位:University of Michigan System; University of Michigan; University of Kentucky; Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
摘要:The 1996 Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act requires welfare recipients to look for work and has made it more difficult for nonworking recipients to remain on the welfare rolls. In addition, the economic boom of the 1990s and changes in federal and state policies have raised the net income gain associated with moving from welfare to work. This paper analyzes data from a panel survey of single mothers, all of whom received welfare in February 1997. In 1999, those wh...
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作者:Stone, D
作者单位:Dartmouth College
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作者:Howell, WG; Wolf, PJ; Campbell, DE; Peterson, PE
作者单位:University of Wisconsin System; University of Wisconsin Madison; Georgetown University; Harvard University
摘要:This article examines the effects of school vouchers on student test scores in New York, New York, Dayton, Ohio, and Washington, DC. The evaluations in all three cities are designed as randomized field trials. The findings, therefore, are not confounded by, the self-selection problems that pervade most observational data. After 2 Years, African Americans who switched from public to private school gained, relative to their public-school peers, an average of 6.3 National Percentile Ranking point...
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作者:Newman, SJ; Harkness, JM
作者单位:Johns Hopkins University
摘要:Recent years have witnessed an intensification of the debate about the fundamental purpose of public assistance to the poor and the effects of these programs on children. This study Uses enriched data from the Panel Study of Income Dynamics to examine the efl cts of living in public housing as a child at some point between 1968 and 1982 on four young adult outcomes: welfare receipt; individual earnings; household earnings relative to the federal poverty line; and employment. Living in public h...
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作者:Friedman, LS
作者单位:University of California System; University of California Berkeley
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作者:Kelman, S
作者单位:Harvard University
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作者:Jargowsky, PA
作者单位:University of Texas System; University of Texas Dallas
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作者:Jargowsky, PA
作者单位:University of Texas System; University of Texas Dallas
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作者:Chambers, S; Tate, K
作者单位:Trinity College; University of California System; University of California Irvine