Poverty, Welfare, and Public Policy

by Besharov, Douglas J.; Call, Douglas M.

• ISBN13: 9781444335132
• ISBN10: 1444335138
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2010-04-06
• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell

Summary

This book is a compilation of seminal articles on poverty and welfare in the United States that would work well as reading for graduate level courses in welfare, poverty, and evaluation. Articles from the Journal of Policy Analysis and Management - considered to be one of the leading forums for the exploration of poverty and welfare - presented in a single volume Presents high-quality research, performed over many years by a wide range of individuals and organizations Includes articles on poverty measurement, concentrated poverty, the relative merits of voluntary versus mandatory welfare-to-work policies, welfare dependency, and the impact of the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) program

Author Biography

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.

Table of Contents

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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