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1 online resource |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 539-552) and index. |
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Table of Contents ; Tables and Figures ; About The Authors ; Preface ; Acknowledgments and Dedication ; Chapter 1. Introduction: The Issue, the Method, and the Story in Brief; Chapter 2. They Said It Couldn't Be Done: The National Supported Work Demonstration; Chapter 3. Bridge to the 1980s: Implementing Random Assignment in Work Incentive Program Offices and Testing a Job Guarantee; Chapter 4. Inventing a New Paradigm: The States as Laboratories; Chapter 5. The Reagan Revolution and Research Capacity Within the Department of Health and Human Services: From Near Destruction to New Growth. |
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Chapter 6. The Work/Welfare Demonstration: Lessons About Programs, Research, and DisseminationChapter 7. Waiver Evaluations: How Random Assignment Evaluation Came to Be the Standard for Approval; Chapter 8. Expanding the Agenda: The Role of Basic Education; Chapter 9. The JOBS Evaluation: Cumulative Evidence on Basic Education Versus Work First; Chapter 10. Expanding the Agenda II: Three Experiments to Make Work Pay; Chapter 11. The End of Our Story: Welfare Reform Recedes from the Spotlight of Random Assignment Program Evaluation ; Chapter 12. Conclusion and Lessons. |
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Coda. Random Assignment Takes Center StageAppendix ; Abbreviations ; Notes ; Note on Sources ; References ; Index. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Social service -- United States -- Evaluation.
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Social service. |
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United States. |
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Evaluation. |
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Social service -- Research -- United States.
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Evaluation research (Social action programs) -- United States.
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Evaluation research (Social action programs) |
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Social service -- Research. |
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Economic Policy. |
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Social service -- Evaluation. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Rolston, Howard.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Fighting for reliable evidence New York : Russell Sage Foundation, [2013] 9780871544933 (pbk. : alk. paper) (DLC) 2013005099 |
| ISBN |
9780871544933 paperback : alkaline paper |
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9781610448130 ebook |
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1610448138 |
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0871544938 (paperback ; alkaline paper) |
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ebc4417116 |
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