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13 Indicators of Quality Child Care: Research Update. Richard Fiene, Pennsylvania State University and National Resource Center for Health and Safety in Child Care, University of Colorado.
The 1996 National Survey of Homeless Assistance Providers and Clients: A Comparison of Faith-Based and Secular Non-Profit Programs. March 2002. By Laudan Y. Aron and Patrick T. Sharkey, The Urban Institute.
Abstinence-Only Education Evaluation (See MPR's web site on the evaluation of abstinence-only education programs for further details.)
Administrative Data for Policy-Relevant Research: Assessment of Current Utility and Recommendations for development, January 1998. By JCPR.
Adolescent Decision Making: Implications for Prevention Programs, A Workshop, 1999. Baruch Fischhoff, Nancy A. Crowell, and Michele Kipke, Editors, NRC.
Adoption Dynamics: The Impact of the Adoption and Safe Families Act (ASFA). 2002. By Fred H. Wulczyn, Chapin Hall Center for Children at the University of Chicago.
Adoption Dynamics: Comparative Results for Subpopulations. November 2002. By Fred H. Wulczyn, Chapin Hall Center for Children at the University of Chicago.
Adult Education for People on AFDC: A Synthesis of Research. By Edward Pauly. 1995. [NEWWS Evaluation]
Advancing State Child Indicators Initiatives project, web site, (posted 2002).
Aid to Families with Dependent Children: The Baseline. June 1998. By ASPE.
Alcohol and Other Drug Treatment Outcomes for Parents and Welfare Recipients: Outcomes, Benefits, and Costs, January 1997. By Dean R. Gerstein, Robert A. Johnson and Cindy L. Larison of the NORC and Hendrick J. Harwood and Douglas Fountain of the Lewin Group.
Ancillary Services to Support Welfare to Work, June 1998. By Amy Johnson and Alicia Meckstroth, MPR.
Annual Congressional Report on the National Strategy to Prevent Teen Pregnancy:
The Application Process for TANF, Food Stamps, Medicaid, and SCHIP: Issues for Agencies and Applicants, Including Immigrants and Limited English Speakers. January 2003. By the Urban Institute.
Archive of AFDC Data, August 2000. By the Urban Institute.
Assessing the Context of Permanency and Reunification in the Foster Care System. 2001. By Westat and Chapin Hall Center for Children.
Assessing the Field of Post-Adoption Services: Family Needs, Program Models and Evaluation Issues web site.
Assessment of Major Federal Data Sets for Analyses of Hispanic and Asian or Pacific Islander Subgroups and Native Americans: The Task 2 Report: Inventory of Selected Existing Federal Databases, May 2000.
Barriers to Self-Sufficiency and Avenues to Success Among Teenage Mothers: Executive Summary, 1992. By MPR.
Beginning Too Soon: Adolescent Sex, Contraception, and Childbearing: A Review of Recent Research Executive Summary, June 1995.
Blending Perspectives and Building Common Ground: Report on Substance Abuse and Child Abuse, April 1999. By ACF and ASPE.
Building an Employment Focused Welfare System: Work First and Other Work-Oriented Strategies in Five States — EXECUTIVE SUMMARY and Full Report. June 1998. By Pamela Holcomb, LaDonna Pavetti, Caroline Ratcliffe, and Susan Riedinger, the Urban Institute
Building and Sustaining Community Partnerships for Teen Pregnancy Prevention: A Working Paper, June 1998.
Building Self-Sufficiency Among Welfare-Dependent Teenage Parents: Lessons from the Teenage Parent Demonstration. By MPR. June 1993.
Building and Sustaining Community Partnerships for Teen Pregnancy Prevention: A Working Paper, June 1998.
Case Management for Teenage Parents: Lessons from the Teenage Parent Demonstration. By MPR, December 1991.
Changing to a Work First Strategy: Lessons from Los Angeles County's GAIN Program for Welfare Recipients. Evan Weissman. 1997. [NEWWS Evaluation]
Characteristics of Families Using
Title IV-D Services in 1995, May 1999.
Characteristics of Families Using Title IV-D Services
in 1997, May 2002.
Characteristics of Low-Wage Workers and Their Labor Market Experiences: Evidence from the Mid- to Late 1990s. April 2004. By Peter Schochet and Anu Rangarajan, Mathematica.
Child Care Prices: A Profile of Six Communities, Executive Summary, April 1995.
Child Care Quality: Does It Matter and Does It Need to be Improved? May 2000. By Deborah Vandell and Barbara Wolfe, University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Child Support and TANF Interaction: Literature Review. 2003. By Mary Farrel, Asaph Glosser, and Karen Gardiner, Lewin and MDRC.
Children in Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) Child-Only Cases with Relative Caregivers. June 2004. By Deborah Gibbs, Jennifer Kasten, Anupa Bir, and Sonja Hoover, RTI International; Dean Duncan, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; and Janet B. Mitchell.
Comparisons of the Major Immigration and Welfare Reform Proposals. 1996.
Comprehensive Service Integration Programs for At Risk Youth, Executive Summary, December 1992.
Coordinated Community Responses to Domestic Violence in Six Communities: Beyond the Justice System, Executive Summary, October 1996. The full report (385k) is also available.
Coordination and Integration of Welfare and Workforce Development Systems, March 2000. By Nancy Pindus, Robin Koralek, Karin Martinson, and John Trutko; the project was done at the Urban Institute.
Core Data Set Project: Child Welfare Service Histories, April 1996. Full report in PDF format.
Core Performance Indicators for Homeless-Serving Programs Administered by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, September 2003. By John Trutko, Capital Research Corporation, and Burt Barnow, Johns Hopkins University. Full report in PDF format.
Costs of Mandatory Education and Training Programs for Teenage Parents on Welfare: Lessons from the Teenage Parent Demonstration. By MPR, 1993.
Descriptive Study of Welfare-to-Work Programs With a Noncustodial Parent Focus, (Overview). Report, December 2000. By Karin Martinson, Urban Institute, John Trutko, Urban Institute, and Debra Strong, MPR.
Designing Program Workshops for Teenage Parents: Lessons from the Teenage Parent Demonstration. By MPR, December 1991.
Determinants of AFDC Caseload Growth, July 1997. By David Stapleton, Gina Livermore, and Adam Tucker, Lewin.
Development Programs, June 1999. By University of Washington.
Devolution and Urban Change. See the Urban Change Project's homepage on MDRC's web site.
Do Mandatory Welfare-to-Work Programs Affect the Well-Being of Children? June 2000.
Dynamics of Children's Movement Among the AFDC, Medicaid, and Foster Care Programs Prior to Welfare Reform: 1995-1996, March 2000.
Early Childhood Longitudinal Birth Cohort Study (ECLS-B)
Early Childhood Measures Profiles, 2004. By Martha Zaslow, Lisa Bridges, and Daniel Berry, Child Trends.
Early Findings on Program Impacts in Three Sites. 1995.
Early Head Start: Coordination of Research Methods for Including Fathers in Developmental Studies
Early Implementation of the Welfare-to-Work Grants Program: Findings From Exploratory Site Visits and Review of Program Plans, February 2000. By MPR and Urban.
Early Implementation of the Welfare-to-Work Grants Program, Report to Congress, March 1999. By Irma Perez-Johnson and Alan M. Hershey, MPR.
The Economic Rationale for Investing in Children: A Focus on Child Care. December 2001. By Diane Paulsell, MPR.
Educating Welfare Recipients for Employment and Empowerment: Case Studies of Promising Programs. By Janet Quint. MDRC, 1997.
Effects of Marriage on Family Economic Well-Being web site (A four-paper series with summary).
The Effects of Welfare Policy and the Economic Expansion on Welfare Caseloads: An Update.
The Effects of the Work Pays Demonstration, EITC Expansions, and the Business Cycle on the Labor Market Behavior of the California Caseload
Efforts by Child Welfare Agencies to Address Domestic Violence: The Experiences of Five Communities, March, 1997. (An Executive Summary is also available.) By Laudan Y. Aron and Krista K. Olson, Urban.
Employment Opportunities for the Welfare-to-Work Target Population in Rural and Small Metropolitan Areas
Employment Outcomes for Youth Aging Out of Foster Care, March 2002. By Robert M. Goerge, Lucy Bilaver, and Bong Joo Lee, Chapin Hall Center for Children at the University of Chicago, Barbara Needell, Alan Brookhart, and William Jackman, Center for Social Services Research, University of California, Berkeley.
Ending Chronic Homelessness: Strategies for Action, March 2003. U.S. Department of Health and Human Services/ASPE.
Enhancing the Well-Being of Young Children and Families in the Context of Welfare Reform: Lessons from Early Childhood, TANF, and Family Support Programs, June 1999. By Jane Knitzer and Nacy Cauthen, National Center for Children in Poverty, in collaboration with Ellen Kisker, MPR.
Enrolling Teenage AFDC Parents in Mandatory Education and Training Programs: Lessons from the Teenage Parent Demonstration. By Mathematica Policy Research, Inc., December 1991.
Estimating Child Welfare Service Costs: Methods Developed for the Evaluation of Family Preservation and Reunification Programs (June 2002). By Westat, Chapin Hall Center for Children, and James Bell Associates.
Evaluating Alternative Welfare-to-Work Approaches: Two-Year Impacts for Eleven Programs. Executive Summary. June 2000. By Stephen Freedman, Daniel Friedlander, Gayle Hamilton, JoAnn Rock, Marisa Mitchell, Jodi Nudelman, Amanda Schweder, and Laura Storto, MDRC.
Evaluating Two Approaches to Case Management: Implementation, Participation Patterns, Costs, and Three-Year Impacts of the Columbus Welfare-to-Work Program. June 2001. By Susan Scrivener and Johanna Walter with Thomas Brock and Gayle Hamilton, MDRC.
Evaluating Two Welfare-to-Work Program Approaches: Two-Year Findings on the Labor Force Attachment and Human Capital Development Programs in Three Sites -- Executive Summary, December 1997. By Gayle Hamilton, et al, MDRC.
Evaluation of Abstinence Education Programs Funded Under Title V, Section 510: Interim Report. 2002. By Barbara Devaney, Amy Johnson, Rebecca Maynard, Chris Trenholm, MPR.
Evaluation of Family Preservation and Reunification Programs web site.
Evaluation of Family Preservation and Reunification Programs: Final Report, December 2002. By Westat, Chapin Hall Center for Children, and James Bell Associates.
Evaluation of Family Preservation and Reunification Programs: Executive Summary to the Interim Report, January 2001. By Westat, Chapin Hall Center for Children, and James Bell Associates.
Evaluation of the New York City Home Rebuilders Demonstration, 1998. By Westat, Chapin Hall Center for Children, and James Bell Associates.
Evaluation of the New Jersey Substance Abuse Research Demonstration web site.
The Evaluation of the Tribal Welfare-to-Work Grants Program: Initial Implementation Findings. 2002. By Walter Hillabrant and Mack B. Rhoades, Jr., Support Services International, Inc., and Nancy Pindus and John Trutko, The Urban Institute. [WtW Grants evaluation]
Evaluation of the Welfare-to-Work (WtW) Grant Program web site.
An Exploratory Analysis of the Medicaid Expenditures of Substance-Exposed Children Under Two Years of Age in California, Executive Summary, Sept. 1993.
Families on TANF in Illinois: Employment Assets and Liabilities, June 2003. By MPR.
Fatherhood Initiative web site.
Fathers’ Involvement in Permanency Planning and Child Welfare Casework, August 2002. By Freya Sonenstein, Karin Malm, Amy BIlling, Urban Institute.
Five Years After: The Long-Term Effects of Welfare-to-Work Programs. 1995. By Daniel Friedlander and Gary Burtless. [NEWWS evaluation]
Fixing to Change: A Best Practices Assessment of One-Stop Job Centers Working with Welfare Recipients, March 1999. By James McIntire and Amy Robins of the Fiscal Policy Center, University of Washington
Formal and Informal Kinship Care, Executive Summary, June 1997. The full report is also available.
Foster Care Dynamics in Urban and Non-Urban Counties, February 2002. By Fred H. Wulczyn and Kristin Brunner Hislop of the Chapin Hall Center for Children, University of Chicago.
Frequently Asked Questions About Child-Only Cases, Sept. 1999. By Elizabeth Lower-Basch, ASPE.
From Prisons to Home: The Effect of Incarceration on Children, Families, and Low-Income Communities, 2003.
Further Progress, Persistent Constraints: Findings from a Second Survey of the Welfare-to-Work Grants Program, June 2000.
FY 1999 Welfare Outcomes Grants with an Emphasis on TANF Diversion
Get Organized: A Guide to Preventing Teen Pregnancy, September 1999.
Getting Off The Ground: Early Implementation Findings about Child Support Enforcement, Head Start, and Child Care Collaboration Demonstrations, 1999.
Giving Noncustodial Parents Options: Employment and Child Support Outcomes of the SHARE Program, October 2003. By Irma Perez-Johnson, Jacqueline Kauff, and Alan Hershey, MPR. [WtW Grants evaluation]
Grants Awarded to Advance States' Child Indicators Initiatives Meeting summaries: November 1998, April 1999, and December 1999
Growth in the Adoption Population, December 2001. By Fred H. Wulczyn and Kristin Brunner Hislop, Chapin Hall Center for Children at the University of Chicago
Health Care Coverage Among Child Support-Eligible Children, December 2002. By Laudan Aron, UI.
HHS Fatherhood Initiative web site
How Are Immigrants Faring? Preliminary Evidence from Los Angeles and New York City. 2002. By Randy Capps, Leighton Ku, Michael Fix, Chris Furgiuele, Jeff Passel, Rajeev Ramchand, Scott McNiven, and Dan Perez-Lopez, The Urban Institute; Eve Fielder, Michael Greenwell and Tonya Hays, Survey Research Center, University of California at Los Angeles.
How Effective Are Different Welfare-to-Work Approaches? Five-Year Adult and Child Impacts for Eleven Programs. December 2001. By Gayle Hamilton, Stephen Freedman, Lisa Gennetian, Charles Michalopoulos, Johanna Walter, Diana Adams-Ciardullo, and Anna Gassman-Pines, MDRC, Sharon McGroder, Martha Zaslow, Surjeet Ahluwalia, Jennifer Brooks, Child Trends, with Electra Small and Bryan Ricchetti, MDRC. [NEWWS Evaluation]
How Well Are They Faring? AFDC Families with Preschool-Aged Children in Atlanta at the Outset of the JOBS Evaluation, Executive Summary, February 1996. By MDRC. [NEWWS Evaluation]
Impacts of a Mandatory Welfare-to-Work Program on Children at School Entry and Beyond: Findings from the NEWWS Child Outcomes Study. October 2002. By Sharon McGroder, Martha Zaslow, Kristin Moore, and Jennifer Brooks, Child Trends. [NEWWS Evaluation]
Impacts on Young Children and Their Families Two Years After Enrollment: Findings from the Child Outcomes Study, Summary Report. June 2000. By Sharon McGroder, Martha Zaslow, Kristin Moore, and Suzanne LeMenestrel, Child Trends. [NEWWS Evaluation]
The Implementation of the Welfare-to-Work Grants Program, August 2002. By Demetra Smith Nightingale, Nancy Pindus, and John Trutko, The Urban Institute. [Evaluation of the WtW Grants]
Implementation, Participation Patterns, Costs, and Two-Year Impacts of the Detroit Welfare-to-Work Program. August 2000. By Mary Farrell with Gayle Hamilton, Christine Schwartz, and Laura Storto, MDRC. [NEWWS Evaluation]
Implementation, Participation Patterns, Costs, and Two-Year Impacts of the Portland (Oregon) Welfare-to-Work Program. 1998. By Susan Scrivener, Gayle Hamilton, Mary Farrell, Stephen Freedman, Daniel Friedlander, Marisa Mitchell, Jodi Nudelman, and Christine Schwartz, MDRC. [NEWWS Evaluation]
Implementing Welfare Reform Requirements for Teenage Parents: Lessons from Experience in Four States, October 1997. By Robert Wood and John Burghardt of MPR.
Indicators of Child, Family, and Community Connections, 2004. By Child Trends.
Indicators of Child, Family, and Community Connections: Companion Volume of Related Papers, 2004. By Child Trends.
Indicators of Welfare Dependence, Annual Report to Congress.
Intensive Family Reunification Programs, Executive Summary, June 1992.
Intensive Case Management Improves Welfare Clients' Rates of Entry and Retention in Substance Abuse Treatment, Executive Summary, January 2001.
The Interactions of Workers and Firms in the Low-Wage Labor Market. December 2002. By Fredrik Andersson, Harry Holzer, and Julia Lane, Census Bureau and the Urban Institute.
Interim Status Report on Research on the Outcomes of Welfare Reform, June 1999
Inventory of Child Care Research, November 1999.
Inventory of Research Uses of Administrative Data in Social Services Programs in the United States 1998, February 1999.
Issue Papers on Foster Care and Adoption web site. Uses the Multi-State Foster Care Data Archive. By Chapin Hall Center for Children, University of Chicago.
Leavers and Diversion Studies web site. Includes reports by state and others on these topics.
Leavers, Stayers, and Cyclers, An Analysis of the Welfare Caseload. November 2002. By Cynthia Miller, MDRC. (In PDF format)
The Long-Term Effects of the Minnesota Family Investment Program (MFIP) on Marriage and Divorce Among Two-Parent Families. June 2003. By Lisa A. Gennetian, MDRC.
The Long Term Impact of Adolescent Risky Behaviors and Family Environment. August 2001. By Michael Pergamit, Lynn Huang, and Julie Lane, NORC.
Los Angeles Family and Neighborhood Survey (L.A. FANS)
Low-Income and Low-Skilled Workers' Involvement in Nonstandard Employment. 2001. By Julia Lane, Kelly S. Mikelson, Patrick T. Sharkey, and Douglas Wissoker, The Urban Institute.
The Low-Wage Labor Market: Challenges and Opportunities for Economic Self-Sufficiency, December 1999.
Measures of Material Hardship: Final Report, April 2004.
Mecklenburg County Linked Database, May 1999.
Moving Into Adulthood: Were the Impacts of Mandatory Programs for Welfare-Dependent Teenage Parents Sustained After the Programs Ended? By MPR, 1998. [Full final evaluation report for TPD project]
Moving People from Welfare to Work: Lessons from the National Evaluation of Welfare-to-Work Strategies. By Gayle Hamilton, MDRC, 2002. [Final synthesis report of the NEWWS evaluation.]
Moving Teenage Parents into Self-Sufficiency: Lessons from Recent Demonstrations. Final Report. By MPR, September 1998. [Final synthesis report of the TPD project.]
National Evaluation of Welfare-to-Work (WtW) Grant Program web site.
National Evaluation of Welfare-to-Work Strategies ... the Portland (Oregon) Welfare-to-Work Program, May 1998. By Susan Scrivener, et al, MDRC.
National Evaluation of Welfare-to-Work Strategies (NEWWS) web site.
National Study of Child Protective Services Systems and Reform Efforts web site.
Neighborhoods and Health: Building Evidence for Local Policy, May 2003. By Kathryn Pettit, Thomas Kingsley, and Claudia Coulton, with Jessica Cigna, The Urban Institute.
NEWWS Final Report: How Effective Are Different Welfare-to-Work Approaches? Five-Year Adult and Child Impacts for Eleven Programs. 2002. By Gayle Hamilton, Stephen Freedman, Lisa Gennetian, Charles Michalopoulos, Johanna Walter, Diana Adams-Ciardullo, and Anna Gassman-Pines, MDRC; Sharon McGroder, Martha Zaslow, Jennifer Brooks, and Surjeet Ahluwalia, Child Trends.
Nonresident Fathers: To What Extent Do They Have Access to Employment-Based Health Care Coverage, June 2000.
Number and Cost of Immigrants on Medicaid: Executive Summary, December 1997.
Oklahoma City's ET&E Program: Two-Year Implementation, Participation, Cost, and Impact Findings. July 1999. By Laura Storto, Gayle Hamilton, Christine Schwartz, and Susan Scrivener, MDRC.
Operating TANF: Opportunities and Challenges for Tribes and Tribal Consortia, August 2003. By Walter Hillabrant, Mack Rhodes, and Nancy Pindus. [WtW Grants evaluation]
Options for Providing Full Day Services to Children Participating in Head Start, Executive Summary, March 1995.
Overcoming Challenges to Business and Economic Development in Indian Country, August 2004. By Walter Hillabrant, Judy Earp, Mack Rhoades, and Nancy Pindus. [WtW Grants evaluation]
Overview of the Final Report of the Seattle-Denver Income Maintenance Experiment (SIME/DIME), May 1983. By ASPE
Parents Fair Share Demonstration: Working With Low-Income Cases: Lessons for the Child Support Enforcement System
A Parent's Guide to Choosing Sage and Healthy Child Care. 2002. PDF version.
Patterns of Adolescent Time Use: An Analysis of National Data, Executive Summary, Sept. 1995.
Patterns of Substance Use and Program Participation, Executive Summary, December 1994.
Positive Youth Development in the United States: Research Findings on Evaluations of Positive Youth Development Programs, June 1999. (Also known as the Positive Youth Development Project). By Richard Catalano, Lisa Berglund, Jeanne Ryan, Heather Lonczak, and David Hawkins of the Social Development Research Group of the University of Washington.
Poverty Guidelines, Research, and Measurement web site.
Private Employers and TANF Recipients, Final Report, May 2004. By David Long and Tammy Ouellette, Abt Associates.
Privatization of Welfare Services: A Review of the Literature, May 2002.
Privatization in Practice: Case Studies of Contracting for TANF Case Management, March 2003. By Sheena McConnell, Andrew Burwick, Irma Perez-Johnson, and Pamela Winston, MPR.
A Profile of Families Cycling on and off Welfare, April 2004. By Lashawn Richburg-Hayes and Stephen Freedman, MDRC.
Research Grants on Welfare Outcomes
Report on Alternative Outcome Measures: Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) Block Grant, December 2000.
Report to Congress on Kinship Foster Care, Executive Summary, June 2000. Note that the Executive Summary includes information only on the research review and does not summarize the Secretary's Report. The full report in PDF format (681KB) is also available.
A Review of Family Preservation and Family Reunification Programs, May 1995. By Westat and Chapin Hall.
A Review of Income Concepts Used in Economic Analysis, May 1977. By R. William Thomas, Abt Associates
Review of Sanction Policies and Research Studies, March 2003. By LaDonna Pavetti, MPR.
Risk and Reality: Teaching Preschool Children Affected by Substance Abuse, 1994
The Role of Intermediaries in Linking TANF Recipients with Jobs, February 2000. By LaDonna Pavetti, Michelle Derr, Jacquelyn Anderson, Carole Trippe, and Sidnee Paschal, MPR
The Saturation Work Initiative Model in San Diego: A Five-Year Follow-up Study. 1993. Daniel Friedlander and Gayle Hamilton. [NEWWS Evaluation]
Self-Sufficiency of Former Foster Youth in Wisconsin: Analysis of Unemployment Insurance Wage Data and Public Assistance Data, December 2000. By Amy Dworsky and Mark E. Courtney, Institute for Research on Poverty, University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Service Needs and Use of Welfare-Dependent Teenage Parents. By MPR, 1993.
Services for Migrant Children in the Health, Social Services and Educational Systems, Executive Summary, March 1993.
Serving TANF and Low-Income Populations through WIA One-Stop Centers: Report on Highlights of Site Visits, January 2004. By Alan Werner and Kendra Lodewick, Abt Associates.
Setting the Baseline: A Report on State Welfare Waivers, June 1997
Sources of Support for Young Latina Mothers, Executive Summary, August 1995.
Specialized Screening Approaches Can Substantially Increase the Identification of Substance Abuse Problems Among Welfare Recipients, Executive Summary, January 2001.
Spending on Social Welfare Programs in Rich and Poor States, June 2004. By the Lewin Group and the Rockefeller Institute of Government.
State Child Care Reports, December 1999. (These reports are available in PDF format for printing: California (PDF), Connecticut (PDF), Delaware (PDF), Florida (PDF), Louisiana (PDF), Michigan (PDF), Pennsylvania (PDF), Texas (PDF), and Utah (PDF).)
State Child Care Reports, December 1999. Inventory of Child Care Research, November 1999.
State Experience and Perspectives on Reducing Out-of-Wedlock Births, February 2003. By Mark W. Nowak, Michael E. Fishman, and Mary E. Farrell of the Lewin Group.
State Implementation of Major Changes to Welfare Policies, 1992 - 1998, 1999. By Gil Crouse, ASPE.
State Innovations in Child Welfare Financing, April 2002. By Westat and Chapin Hall.
State Policies to Promote Marriage, Final Report. September 2002. By Karen Gardiner, Mike Fishman, Plamen Nikolov, and Stephanie Laud, the Lewin Group, with the assistance of Theodora Ooms, CLASP
State Practices in Medical Child Support Cross-Program Coordination, June 2003. By Lynne Fender and Jen Bernstein, the Urban Institute.
State Studies of the TANF Caseload. See Survey Design Report and Survey Instrument, 2003. By MPR
State Welfare-to-Work Policies for People with Disabilities: Changes Since Welfare Reform, October 1998. By Terri S. Thompson
Strengthening Head Start: What the Evidence Shows, June 2003. Prepared by ASPE.
Studies of Welfare Populations: Data Collection and Research Issues, 2002. By the National Research Council
A Study of Work Participation and Full Engagement Strategies, Final Report, September 2004. By Jacqueline Kauff, Michelle Derr, and LaDonna Pavetti, MPR.
Study of Welfare-to-Work Programs Serving Noncustodial Parents
Study to Examine UI Eligibility Among Former TANF Recipients: Evidence from New Jersey, November 2002. By Anu Rangarajan, Carol Razafindrakoto, and Walter Corson, MPR.
Substance Abuse Among Women and Parents, Executive Summary, July 1994.
Substance Abuse and Substance-Related Impairment Among Participants in the Aid to Families with Dependent Children Program (AFDC), Executive Summary, December 1994.
Summary of Immigrant Eligibility Restrictions Under Current Law, 2002.
Survey Design for TANF Caseload Project: Summary Report and Recommendations, August 2002. By Martha Kovac, Robin Dion, Jason Markesich, and Donna Pavetti, MPR.
A Synthesis of Research on Family Preservation and Family Reunification Programs, May 1995
The Task 3 Report: Extending the Utility of Federal Databases, May 2000
Teenage Parent Demonstration and Evaluation web site.
Transition Events in the Dynamics of Poverty, September 2002. By Signe-Mary McKernan and Caroline Ratcliffe of the Urban Institute.
Trends in the Well-Being of America's Children and Youth.
Understanding the AFDC/TANF Child-Only Caseload: Policies, Composition, and Characteristics in Three States, February 2000. By the Lewin Group.
Understanding the Costs of the DOL Welfare-to-Work Grants Program, August 2002. [Evaluation of the WtW Grants]
The Use of TANF Work-Oriented Sanctions in Illinois, New Jersey, and South Carolina, Final Report, April 2004. By LaDonna Pavetti, Michelle Derr, Gretchen Kirby, Robert Wood, and Melissa Clark, MPR.
Welfare Outcomes Grants, Leavers Studies:
Welfare Reform/Child Well-Being Administrative Data Linking, Child Link, June 1999. By the South Carolina Department of Social Services.
From Welfare to Work. 1991. By Judith Gueron and Edward Pauly, MDRC. [NEWWS Evaluation]
Welfare Time Limits: State Policies, Implementation, and Effects on Families, Executive Summary, 2002. By Dan Bloom, et al, MDRC.
Welfare-to-Work Grants Programs: Adjusting to Changing Circumstances, November 2003. By Demetra Smith Nightingale, Carolyn Taylor O'Brien, Michael Egner, Nancy Pindus, and John Trutko, Urban Institute. [WtW Grants evaluation]
Welfare-to-Work Grants Program: Enrollee Outcomes One Year After Program Entry, Report to Congress, February 2004. By Thomas Fraker, Dan Levy, Robert Olsen, Rita Stapulonis, MPR. [WtW Grants evaluation]
What Works for Whom: Impacts of 20 Welfare-to-Work Programs by Subgroup: Executive Summary, August 2000. By Charles Michalopoulos and Christine Schwartz with Diana Adams-Ciardullo, MDRC. [NEWWS Evaluation]
Work First: How to Implement an Employment-Focused Approach to Welfare Reform. 1997. By Amy Brown. [NEWWS Evaluation]
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