Evaluating Welfare Reform A Framework and Review of Current Work, Interim Report (1999) / Chapter Skim
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The panel's overall charge is to study and make recommendations on the best strategies for evaluating the effects of PRWORA and other welfare reforms and to make recommendations on data needs for conducting useful evaluations. Under the broad charge, the panel is considering many evaluation issues, such as the proper mix of national-level and state-level evaluations; the appropriate roles of experimental and nonexperimental evaluation methodologies; and the importance of monitoring versus evaluation.
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The report has an immediate short-run goal of providing DHHSASPE with recommendations regarding some of its current projects, particularly those recently funded to study "welfare leavers" former welfare recipients who have left the welfare rolls as part of the recent decline in welfare caseloads. INITIAL CONCLUSIONS Many of the conclusions reached by the panel in its initial examination of welfare reform evaluations under way around the country concern the data bases used for evaluation.
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Moreover, cross-state comparability in state-level data sets and the development of comparable measures of state policies are important for both national-level and state-level evaluations. Although nonexperimental methods have become the dominant evaluation method for PRWORA, the panel believes that experimental methods should be kept on the table and still have a role to play in the future.
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identifying key policy issues over the next 35 years that should guide priorities for data collection and research; (2) taking steps to ensure that research addresses key populations of interest for social welfare policy analysis; (3)
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The increase in child-only cases, some of which are the result of partial family sanctions, presents a similar definitional challenge. DHHS can make a major contribution to improving the analytical rigor and cross-area comparability of data and research on the effects of changes in social welfare programs by addressing the definition of key population groups and proposing standard definitions for use in research and data collection and ensuring that grant and contract research programs adequately cover key groups.
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(3) The panel recommends that the Department of Health and Human Services make the improvement of capabilities for data collection and research on social welfare programs at both federal and state levels a priority.
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(5) The panel recommends that the Department of Health and Human Services take an active and direct role in documenting and publishing the TANF policies enacted in every state and in every substate area where relevant.
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(6) The panel recommends that ASPE encourage the leaver study grantees to achieve the greatest possible comparability of analysis and results by asking grantees to share their tabulation, analysis, and reporting plans and by facilitating a dialogue to work toward comparability of analysis methods, reporting categories used, and documentation of methods and results.
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