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Douglas J.?Besharov is a professor at the University of Maryland School of Public Policy, where he teaches courses on poverty, welfare, children and families, policy analysis, program evaluation, and performance management. He has written or edited seventeen books, and has written over 300 articles.
Douglas M. Call is a research associate at the University of Maryland School of Public Policy. He has coauthored (with Douglas Besharov) articles that have appeared in the Wilson Quarterly and the Policy Studies Journal.
American Poverty | |
The measure and meaning of poverty | |
How to Improve Poverty Measurement in the United States | |
Reconciliation of Income and Consumption Data in Poverty Measurement | |
The Relationship Between Income and Material Hardship | |
The Occurrence of Poverty Across the Life Cycle: Evidence from the PSID | |
A Re-Examination of Welfare States and Inequality in Rich Nations: How In-Kind Transfers and Indirect Taxes Change the Story | |
The demographics of poverty | |
For Richer or for Poorer: Marriage as an Anti-Poverty Strategy | |
Black Employment Problems: New Evidence, Old Questions | |
Declining Employment Among Young Black Less-Educated Men: The Role of Incarceration and Child Support | |
Labor Market Experiences of Low-Income Black Women in Middle-Class Suburbs: Evidence from a Survey of Gautreaux Program Participants Susan Popkin | |
Moving Into and Out of Poor Urban Areas | |
The Road to Welfare Reform | |
Welfare dependency | |
Determinants of Initial Entry onto Welfare by Young Women | |
The Interaction between Single Mothers' Living Arrangements and Welfare Participation," | |
Moving Up, Moving Out, or Going Nowhere? A Study of the Employment Patterns of Young Women and the Implications for Welfare Mothers | |
Mandatory vs. voluntary programs | |
Welfare Reform and Mandatory Versus Voluntary Work: Policy Issue or Management Problem? | |
Should Workfare be Mandatory? What Research Says," | |
Rejoinder to Mead | |
Can a Voluntary Welfare Program Change the Behavior of Welfare Recipients? New Evidence from Washington State's Family Independence Program (FIP)," | |
Four decades of experimentation | |
Fostering Research Excellence and Impacting Policy and Practice: The Welfare Reform Story | |
Demonstration Evaluations and Cost Neutrality: Using Caseload Models to Determine the Federal Cost Neutrality of New Jersey's REACH Demonstration | |
The Budgetary Implications of Welfare Reform: Lessons from Four State Initiatives," | |
TANF and Its Aftermath | |
Did welfare reform "succeed"? | |
Alternative Measures of Economic Success among TANF Participants: Avoiding Poverty, Hardship, and Dependence on Public Assistance | |
Why Welfare Reform Succeeded | |
TANF's Results are More Mixed than is Often Understood | |
Response to Parrott and Sherman | |
Response to Mead | |
Welfare vs. work | |
Incentives, Challenges, and Dilemmas of TANF: A Case Study | |
Does It Pay to Move From Welfare to Work? | |
Does it Pay to Move From Welfare to Work? A Comment on Danziger, Heflin, Corcoran, Oltmans, and Wang | |
Does It Pay to Move from Welfare to Work? Reply to Robert Moffitt and Katie Winder | |
Child support and father's work | |
Child Support Enforcement: Programs and Policies, Impacts and Questions | |
Effective Child Support Policy for Low-Income Families: Evidence From Street Level Research | |
How Much Does Research Matter? | |
Congress Writes a Law: Research and Welfare Reform | |
Expertise, Advocacy, and Deliberation: Lessons from Welfare Reform | |
The Dissemination and Utilization of Welfare-to-Work Experiments in State Policymaking | |
Conclusion | |
From the Great Society to Continuous Improvement Government: Shifting from ‘Does it Work?' to ‘What Would Make it Better?' | |
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