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Direct linkDee, Thomas S. – Economics of Education Review, 2011
Wisconsin's influential Learnfare initiative is a conditional cash "penalty" program that sanctions a family's welfare grant when covered teens fail to meet school attendance targets. In the presence of reference-dependent preferences, Learnfare provides uniquely powerful financial incentives for student performance. However, a 10-county…
Descriptors: Sanctions, Welfare Recipients, Welfare Services, Financial Support
Peer reviewedZiegler, Mary; Durant, Chas; Mincey, Rosemarie – Perspectives: The New York Journal of Adult Learning, 2003
Six adult basic education programs were examined to understand why they reported higher than average attendance for welfare recipients. Learners saw class not as mandatory, but as a way to achieve goals. Programs focused on engagement, a precursor to learning. Engagement factors included beliefs about teaching/learning, relationships, learning…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Attendance, Program Effectiveness, Student Motivation
Download full textWhat Works Clearinghouse, 2006
Financial incentives for teen parents are components of state welfare programs intended to encourage enrollment, attendance, and completion of high school as a means of increasing employment and earnings and reducing welfare dependence. The incentives take the form of bonuses and sanctions to the welfare grant related to school enrollment,…
Descriptors: Enrollment, Child Rearing, Sanctions, Welfare Recipients
Long, David; And Others – 1994
This report presents new findings on the effectiveness of Ohio's Learning, Earning, and Parenting (LEAP) Program in Cleveland as well as initial results from the Cleveland Student Parent Demonstration, a special project undertaken as part of the LEAP evaluation. LEAP is a statewide initiative that uses financial incentives and penalties to promote…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Ancillary School Services, Attendance, Day Care
Quinn, Lois M.; And Others – 1991
The Wisconsin "Learnfare" policy requires that teenagers receiving Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC) attend school regularly until they have completed high school. The population of teen parents and dependent teens receiving AFDC from September 1988 through December 1989 included 22,241 males and 30,995 females. About half…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Attendance, Compliance (Legal), Compulsory Education
Bloom, Dan; And Others – 1991
An analysis of Ohio's Learning, Earning, and Parenting (LEAP) program focused on the first 18 months of program operations. The 12 randomly selected research counties contained about two-thirds of the statewide teen population targeted by LEAP. The analysis relied on field research, supplemented by data collected from county human service agencies…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Agency Cooperation, Ancillary School Services, Attendance
