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Brief
November 2001

Promoting Employment in Public Housing Communities

Learning from the Jobs-Plus Demonstration

Report
November 2001

The Challenge of Helping Low-Income Fathers Support Their Children

Final Lessons from Parents’ Fair Share

Fathers provide important financial and emotional support to their children. Yet low-income noncustodial fathers, with low wages and high rates of joblessness, often do not fulfill their parenting roles. The child support system has not traditionally helped these men to do so, since its focus has been on securing financial support from fathers who can afford to pay.

Report
November 2001

When Financial Incentives Pay for Themselves

Interim Findings from the Self-Sufficiency Project’s Applicant Study

Report
November 2001

Complaint Resolution in the Context of Welfare Reform

How W-2 Settles Disputes

Report
November 2001

Evaluating the Accelerated Schools Approach

A Look at Early Implementation and Impacts on Student Achievement in Eight Elementary Schools

Report
November 2001

Matching Applicants with Services

Initial Assessments in the Milwaukee County W-2 Program

Methodological Publication
October 2001

Extending the Reach of Randomized Social Experiments

New Directions in Evaluations of American Welfare-to-Work and Employment Initiatives

Methodological Publication
October 2001

Measuring the Impacts of Whole-School Reforms

Methodological Lessons from an Evaluation of Accelerated Schools

Report
September 2001

A Meta-Analysis of Government Sponsored Training Programs

Working Paper
September 2001

A Review of Child Care Policies in Experimental Welfare and Employment Programs

Working Paper
September 2001

The Effects of Welfare and Employment Programs on Child Care for Pre-School-Aged Children

Working Paper
September 2001

Does Child Care Assistance Matter?

The Effects of Welfare and Employment Programs on Child Care

Report
September 2001

"I Did It for Myself"

Studying Efforts to Increase Adult Learner Persistence in Library Literacy Programs

Report
August 2001

Work Support Centers: A Concept Paper

Brief
July 2001

The 30-Year Tug-of-War

Can Reform Resolve Welfare Policy's Thorniest Conundrum?

Methodological Publication
July 2001

Modeling the Performance of Welfare-to-Work Programs

The Effects of Program Management and Services, Economic Environment, and Client Characteristics

Working Paper
July 2001

Sustained Employment and Earnings Growth

New Experimental Evidence on Financial Work Incentives and Pre-Employment Services

Report
July 2001

SSP Plus at 36 Months: Effects of Adding Employment Services to Financial Incentives

Methodological Publication
June 2001

A Regression-Based Strategy for Defining Subgroups in a Social Experiment

Report
June 2001

Evaluating Two Approaches to Case Management

Implementation, Participation Patterns, Costs, and Three-Year Impacts of the Columbus Welfare-to-Work Program