Evaluating Welfare Reform A Framework and Review of Current Work, Interim Report (1999) / Chapter Skim
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1 Introduction
1 Introduction
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program. PRWORA furthered a trend that began earlier in the decade under so-called "waiver" programs state experiments with different program rules towards devolution of design and control of social welfare programs from the federal government to state governments.
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of the Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) asked the Committee on National Statistics of the National Research Council to convene the Panel on Data and Methods for Measuring the Effects of Changes in Social Welfare Programs, using funds in a congressional appropriation to ASPE for this purpose.
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In doing so, the panel may consider alternative federal and state data sources, the limitations of currently available data, appropriate evaluation design and methods for analysis and inference, and, finally, findings from previous research and evaluation. The panel is also specifically charged with reviewing data needs and methods for tracking and assessing the effects of program changes on families who stop receiving cash assistance.
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Other states have informal, less well documented, diversion policies to discourage application and benefit receipt. The degree to which these formal and informal diversion programs are applied in different welfare offices makes determination of the actual policy environment facing a given low-income family more difficulty variations on shorter time limits: a family may receive assistance for only so many months in a 60month period or may receive assistance for only 24 cumulative months, after which cash assistance stops, but may resume again after a number of months of nonreceipt, for example.
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The 1996 legislation changed the state reporting requirements, which also have implications for data collection and program evaluation. States must now produce quarterly reports on monthly measures of many characteristics of a sample of families and children receiving cash assistance, such as their demographic characteristics, employment status, and program use.
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From these activities and its own deliberations, the panel has produced this interim report, which has three purposes. The first is to outline a broad framework for evaluating and studying welfare reform that clarifies the basic principles of good evaluation design and which discusses the special evaluation and data issues involved in welfare reform analysis.
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provides immediate, short-run recommendations directed primarily to ASPE regarding its research agenda for welfare reform and its further sponsoring of welfare leaver studies. The panel's final report will contain broader recommendations on evaluation and data needs for welfare reform.
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