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Understanding Best Practices for Operating Welfare-To-Work Programs

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  • James A. Riccio

    (Manpower Demonstration Research Corporation)

  • Alan Orenstein

    (Manpower Demonstration Research Corporation)

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This study explores the relationships between program practices and program impacts on earnings and welfare payments in California's welfare-to-work program, known as GAIN. Practices and impacts (based on a random assignment experiment) are compared across six counties and (on some measures) 20 local offices. The findings challenge some popular theories of "what works best" in welfare-to-work programs and illustrate how comparisons of a small number of sites within multisite studies can help researchers "get inside the black box, " a common problem in evaluation research.

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  • James A. Riccio & Alan Orenstein, 1996. "Understanding Best Practices for Operating Welfare-To-Work Programs," Evaluation Review, , vol. 20(1), pages 3-28, February.
    • Handle: RePEc:sae:evarev:v:20:y:1996:i:1:p:3-28
    DOI: 10.1177/0193841X9602000101
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    1. Lawrence M. Mead, 1983. "Expectations And Welfare Work: Win In New York City," Review of Policy Research, Policy Studies Organization, vol. 2(4), pages 648-662, May.
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    2. Howard S. Bloom & Carolyn J. Hill & James A. Riccio, 2003. "Linking program implementation and effectiveness: Lessons from a pooled sample of welfare-to-work experiments," Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., vol. 22(4), pages 551-575.

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