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Government as Anti-Poverty Facilitator in the USA: Static Inequality Gap
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Musgrave, Frank W. – Journal of Education Finance, 2009
This article explores issues of persistent poverty and income inequality. The major focus is that of the alleviation of poverty. Is there a framework that delineates the roles for government, market forces and self-reliance that can effect a reduction in the level of poverty? The Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act…
Descriptors: Economic Research, Poverty, Family Income, One Parent Family
Does Receiving an Earnings Supplement Affect Union Formation? Estimating Effects for Program Participants Using Propensity Score Matching
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Harknett, Kristen – Evaluation Review, 2006
This article demonstrates a novel application of propensity score matching techniques: to estimate nonexperimental impacts on program participants within the context of an experimental research design. The author examines the relationship between program participation, defined as qualifying for an earnings supplement by working full-time, and…
Descriptors: Mothers, Foreign Countries, Participation, One Parent Family
How Important Are 'Entry Effects' in Financial Incentive Programs for Welfare Recipients? Experimental Evidence from the Self-Sufficiency Project. SRDC Working Papers.
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Card, David; Robins, Philip K.; Lin, Winston – 1997
The Self-Sufficiency Project (SSP) entry effect experiment was designed to measure the effect of the future availability of an earnings supplement on the behavior of newly enrolled income assistance (IA) recipients. It used a classical randomized design. From a sample of 3,315 single parents who recently started a new period of IA, one-half were…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Demonstration Programs, Developed Nations, Economically Disadvantaged
Do Work Incentives Have Unintended Consequences? Measuring "Entry Effects" in the Self-Sufficiency Project.
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Berlin, Gordon; Bancroft, Wendy; Card, David; Lin, Winston; Robins, Philip K. – 1998
The Self-Sufficiency Project (SSP) is a Canadian social demonstration and research project designed to test an employment alternative to welfare. The SSP makes work pay by offering generous earnings supplements to long-term, single-parent welfare recipients who find full-time jobs and leave Canada's Income Assistance (IA) welfare system. The SSP's…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Programs, Control Groups, Demonstration Programs
Does SSP Plus Increase Employment? The Effect of Adding Services to the Self-Sufficiency Project's Financial Incentives.
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Quets, Gail; Robins, Philip K.; Pan, Elsie C.; Michalopoulos, Charles; Card, David – 1999
In 1992, Human Resources Development Canada launched the Self-Sufficiency Project (SSP), which was a research and demonstration effort involving long-term, single-parent Income Assistance (IA) recipients in New Brunswick and British Columbia. Under SSP, IA recipients who left IA and worked at least 30 hours per week were offered a generous but…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Comparative Analysis, Demonstration Programs, Employment Level
The Struggle for Self-Sufficiency: Participants in the Self-Sufficiency Project Talk about Work, Welfare, and Their Futures.
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Bancroft, Wendy; Vernon, Sheila Currie – 1995
This report recounts experiences of 99 single parents in British Columbia and New Brunswick who were offered the opportunity to receive cash payments in addition to their earnings if they left the income assistance (IA) rolls and took full-time jobs. The experiences are from participants of focus groups who were mostly female single parents, about…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Client Attitudes (Human Services), Client Characteristics (Human Services), Decision Making