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Author Gueron, Judith M

Title Fighting for reliable evidence / Judith M. Gueron and Howard Rolston
Published New York : Russell Sage Foundation, [2013]

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Contents 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
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
Coda. Random Assignment Takes Center StageAppendix ; Abbreviations ; Notes ; Note on Sources ; References ; Index
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 539-552) and index
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Subject Social service -- United States -- Evaluation
Social service -- Research -- United States
Evaluation research (Social action programs) -- United States
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Economic Policy.
Evaluation research (Social action programs)
Social service -- Evaluation
Social service -- Research
United States
Form Electronic book
Author Rolston, Howard
LC no. 2019719384
ISBN 9781610448130
1610448138