Prospects of part-time work: the impact of the back to work bonus
In: Research report 115
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In: Research report 115
In: Journal of policy analysis and management: the journal of the Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management, Band 13, S. 658-680
ISSN: 0276-8739
Examines the duration, prevalence, repetition, and severity of poverty in the first 15 years of life; implications for targeting assistance; US.
In: Journal of policy analysis and management: the journal of the Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management, Band 13, Heft 4, S. 658-680
ISSN: 0276-8739
In: Journal of policy analysis and management: the journal of the Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management, Band 13, Heft 4, S. 658
ISSN: 1520-6688
In: Evaluation: the international journal of theory, research and practice, Band 10, Heft 2, S. 193-216
ISSN: 1461-7153
Numerous programmes designed to encourage welfare recipients to move into work and off benefit have been evaluated in the United States. Many have randomly assigned potential participants into 'experimental' and 'control' groups to generate unbiased estimates of the effectiveness of the programmes. The results of the evaluations have been selectively influential in shaping policy developments on both sides of the Atlantic, but a thorough understanding of the diversity of experience has been lacking. Applying meta-analysis techniques to a specially constructed database of evaluations in over 50 US sites, this article reports on the first programme-level, systematic meta-evaluation of welfare-to-work programmes. The results confirm the superiority of approaches that prioritize immediate work over human-capital investment but reveal that caseload characteristics and local environment can be equally important as or even more important than programme design. The article concludes with a discussion of the potential and limitations of meta-evaluation.