{"product_id":"poverty-welfare-and-public-policy-isbn-9781444335132","title":"Poverty, Welfare, and Public Policy","description":"This book is a compilation of seminal articles on poverty and welfare in the United States that would work well as reading for graduate level courses in welfare, poverty, and evaluation.  \u003cul\u003e \u003cli\u003eArticles from the Journal of Policy Analysis and Management - considered to be one of the leading forums for the exploration of poverty and welfare - presented in a single volume\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003ePresents high-quality research, performed over many years by a wide range of individuals and organizations\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eIncludes articles on poverty measurement, concentrated poverty, the relative merits of voluntary versus mandatory welfare-to-work policies, welfare dependency, and the impact of the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) program\u003c\/li\u003e \u003c\/ul\u003e 1. American Poverty.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe measure and meaning of poverty.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eHow to Improve Poverty Measurement in the United States, Rebecca Blank (2008).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eReconciliation of Income and Consumption Data in Poverty Measurement, Richard Bavier (2008).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Relationship Between Income and Material Hardship,James X. Sullivan, Lesley Turner, and Sheldon Danziger (2008).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Occurrence of Poverty Across the Life Cycle: Evidence from the PSID, Mark Rank and Thomas Hirschl (2001).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eA Re-Examination of Welfare States and Inequality in Rich Nations: How In-Kind Transfers and Indirect Taxes Change the Story, Irwin Garfinkel, Lee Rainwater, and Timothy Smeeding (2006).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe demographics of poverty.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFor Richer or for Poorer: Marriage as an Anti-Poverty Strategy, Adam Thomas and Isabel Sawhill (2002).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBlack Employment Problems: New Evidence, Old Questions, Harry Holzer (1994).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDeclining Employment Among Young Black Less-Educated Men: The Role of Incarceration and Child Support, Harry Holzer, Paul Offner, and Elaine Sorensen (2005).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eLabor Market Experiences of Low-Income Black Women in Middle-Class Suburbs: Evidence from a Survey of Gautreaux Program Participants Susan Popkin, James Rosenbaum, and Patricia Meaden (1993).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMoving Into and Out of Poor Urban Areas,Edward Gramlich, Deborah Laren, and Naomi Sealand (1992).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2. The Road to Welfare Reform.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWelfare dependency.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDeterminants of Initial Entry onto Welfare by Young Women, Marieka Klawitter, Robert D. Plotnick, and Mark Evan Edwards (2000).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Interaction between Single Mothers' Living Arrangements and Welfare Participation,\" Rebecca London (2000).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMoving Up, Moving Out, or Going Nowhere? A Study of the Employment Patterns of Young Women and the Implications for Welfare Mothers, LaDonna Pavetti and Gregory Acs (2001).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMandatory vs. voluntary programs.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWelfare Reform and Mandatory Versus Voluntary Work: Policy Issue or Management Problem? Mary Jo Bane (1989).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eShould Workfare be Mandatory? What Research Says,\" Lawrence Mead (1990).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eRejoinder to Mead, Laurence Lynn (1990).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eCan a Voluntary Welfare Program Change the Behavior of Welfare Recipients? New Evidence from Washington State's Family Independence Program (FIP),\" Duane Leigh (1995).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFour decades of experimentation.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFostering Research Excellence and Impacting Policy and Practice: The Welfare Reform Story, Judith Gueron (2003).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDemonstration Evaluations and Cost Neutrality: Using Caseload Models to Determine the Federal Cost Neutrality of New Jersey's REACH Demonstration, Steven Garasky and Burt Barnow (1992).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Budgetary Implications of Welfare Reform: Lessons from Four State Initiatives,\" David Long (1988).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3. TANF and Its Aftermath.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDid welfare reform \"succeed\"?\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAlternative Measures of Economic Success among TANF Participants: Avoiding Poverty, Hardship, and Dependence on Public Assistance, Maria Cancian and Daniel Meyer (2004).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWhy Welfare Reform Succeeded, Lawrence Mead (2007a).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eTANF's Results are More Mixed than is Often Understood, Sharon Parrott and Arloc Sherman (2007a).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eResponse to Parrott and Sherman, Mead (2007b).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eResponse to Mead, Parrott and Sherman (2007b).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWelfare vs. work.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIncentives, Challenges, and Dilemmas of TANF: A Case Study, Barbara Wolfe (2002).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDoes It Pay to Move From Welfare to Work?, Sheldon Danziger, Colleen M. Heflin, Mary E. Corcoran, Elizabeth Oltmans, and Hui-Chen Wang (2002).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDoes it Pay to Move From Welfare to Work? A Comment on Danziger, Heflin, Corcoran, Oltmans, and Wang, Robert Moffitt and Katie Winder (2005).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDoes It Pay to Move from Welfare to Work? Reply to Robert Moffitt and Katie Winder, Sheldon Danziger and Hui-Chen Wang (2005).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChild support and father's work.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChild Support Enforcement: Programs and Policies, Impacts and Questions, Maureen Pirog and Kathleen Ziol-Guest (2006).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eEffective Child Support Policy for Low-Income Families: Evidence From Street Level Research, Maureen Waller and Robert Plotnick (2001).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4. How Much Does Research Matter?\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eCongress Writes a Law: Research and Welfare Reform, Haskins (1991).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eExpertise, Advocacy, and Deliberation: Lessons from Welfare Reform,Mary Jo Bane (2001).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Dissemination and Utilization of Welfare-to-Work Experiments in State Policymaking, David Greenberg, Marvin Mandell, and Matthew Onstott (2000).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eConclusion.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFrom the Great Society to Continuous Improvement Government: Shifting from ‘Does it Work?' to ‘What Would Make it Better?' Douglas Besharov.\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDouglas J.?Besharov\u003c\/strong\u003e is a professor at the University of Maryland School of Public Policy, where he teaches courses on poverty, welfare, children and families, policy analysis, program evaluation, and performance management. He has written or edited seventeen books, and has written over 300 articles. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDouglas M. Call\u003c\/strong\u003e is a research associate at the University of Maryland School of Public Policy. He has coauthored (with Douglas Besharov) articles that have appeared in the \u003cem\u003eWilson Quarterly\u003c\/em\u003e and the \u003cem\u003ePolicy Studies Journal\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Wiley-Blackwell","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47989824323813,"sku":"NP9781444335132","price":58.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9781444335132.jpg?v=1761785584","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/poverty-welfare-and-public-policy-isbn-9781444335132","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}