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Appendix D

Additional Reports and Studies

Reports from Random Assignment Evaluations

Arizona EMPOWER Program

Kornfeld, Robert, Laura Peck, Diane Porcari, John Straubinger, Zacharay Johnson, and Clementina Cabral. 1999. Evaluation of the Arizona EMPOWER Welfare Reform Demonstration: Impact Study Interim Report. Cambridge, MA: Abt Associates Inc.

Connecticut’s Jobs First Program

Bloom, Dan, Mary Andes, and Claudia Nicholson. 1998. Jobs First: Early Implementation of Connecticut’s Welfare Reform Initiative. New York: Manpower Demonstration Research Corporation.

Bloom, Dan, Laura Melton, Charles Michalopoulos, Susan Scrivener, and Johanna Walter. 2000. Implementation and Early Impacts of Connecticut’s Welfare Reform Initiative. New York: Manpower Demonstration Research Corporation.

Bloom, Dan, Susan Scrivener, Charles Michalopoulos, Pamela Morris, Richard Hendra, Diana Adams-Ciardullo, and Johanna Walter. 2002. Jobs First: Final Report on Connecticut’s Welfare Reform Initiative. New York: Manpower Demonstration Research Corporation.

Hendra, Richard, Charles Michalopoulos, and Dan Bloom. 2001. Three-Year Impacts of Con-necticut’s Jobs First Welfare Reform Initiative. New York: Manpower Demonstration Research Corporation.

Delaware’s A Better Chance Program

Fein, David, and Jennifer Karweit. 1997. The ABC Evaluation: The Early Economic Impacts of Delaware’s A Better Chance Welfare Reform Program. Cambridge, MA: Abt Associates Inc.

Fein, David J., and Wang S. Lee. 2000. Impacts of Welfare Reform in Child Maltreatment. Cambridge, MA: Abt Associates Inc.

Fein, David J., David A. Long, Joy M. Behrens, and Wang S. Lee. 2001. Turning the Corner: Delaware’s A Better Chance Welfare Reform Program at Four Years. Cambridge, MA: Abt Associates Inc.

Florida’s Family Transition Program

Bloom, Dan. 1995. The Family Transition Program: An Early Implementation Report on Flor-ida’s Time-Limited Welfare Initiative. New York: Manpower Demonstration Research Corporation.

Bloom, Dan, Mary Farrell, James J. Kemple, and Nandita Verma. 1998. The Family Transition Program: Implementation and Interim Impacts of Florida’s Initial Time-Limited Welfare Program. New York: Manpower Demonstration Research Corporation.

Bloom, Dan, Mary Farrell, James J. Kemple, and Nandita Verma. 1999. The Family Transition Program: Three-Year Impacts of Florida’s Initial Time-Limited Welfare Program. New York: Manpower Demonstration Research Corporation.

Bloom, Dan, James J. Kemple, Pamela Morris, Susan Scrivener, Nandita Verma, and Richard Hendra. 2000. The Family Transition Program: Final Report on Florida’s Initial Time-Limited Welfare Program. New York: Manpower Demonstration Research Corporation.

Bloom, Dan, James J. Kemple, and Robin Rogers-Dillon. 1997. The Family Transition Program: Implementation and Early Impacts of Florida’s Initial Time-Limited Welfare Program. New York: Manpower Demonstration Research Corporation.

Indiana’s Manpower Placement and Comprehensive Training Program

Fein, David J., Erik Beecroft, William Hamilton, and Wang S. Lee. 1998. The Indiana Welfare Reform Evaluation: Program Implementation and Economic Impacts After Two Years. Cambridge, MA: Abt Associates Inc.

Fein, David J., Eric Beecroft, and Jennifer Karweit. 1997. The Indiana Welfare Reform Evaluation: Assessing Program Implementation and Early Impacts on Cash Assistance. Cam-bridge, MA: Abt Associates Inc.

Vermont’s Welfare Restructuring Project

Hendra, Richard, and Charles Michalopoulos. 1999. Forty-Two Month Impacts of Vermont’s Welfare Restructuring Project. New York: Manpower Demonstration Research Corporation.

Virginia Independence Program

Gordon, Anne, and Roberto Agodini. 1999. Early Impacts of the Virginia Independence Program. Princeton, NJ: Mathematica Policy Research, Inc.

Gordon, Anne, and Susanne James-Burdumy. 2002. Impacts of the Virginia Initiative for Employment Not Welfare: Final Report. Princeton, NJ: Mathematica Policy Research, Inc.

Pavetti, LaDonna, Nancy Wemmerus, and Amy Johnson. 1999. Implementation of Welfare Reform in Virginia: A Work in Progress. Princeton, NJ: Mathematica Policy Research,
Inc.

Texas

Schexnayder, Deanna, Jerome Olson, Daniel Schroeder, Alicia Betsinger, and Shao-Chee Sim. 1998. Achieving Change for Texans Evaluation: Net Impacts Through December 1997. Austin: University of Texas, Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs.

Texas Department of Human Services. 1998. Evaluation of the Texas Welfare Reform Waiver: Achieving Change for Texans. Austin: Author.

Reports from Follow-Up Studies of Families Leaving Welfare Due to Time Limits

Bania, Neil, Claudia Colton, Nina Lalich, Toby Martin, Matt Newburn, and Carla Pasqualone. 2001. A Comparison of Time-Limited and Non-Time-Limited Welfare Leavers in Cuya-hoga County, Ohio. Cleveland: Case Western Reserve University, Center on Urban
Poverty and Social Change.

Gordon, Anne, Susanne James-Burdumy, Renee Loeffler, Barbara Guglielmo, and Carol Kuhns. 2002. Experiences of Virginia Time Limit Families After Case Closure: An Interim Report. Princeton, NJ: Mathematica Policy Research, Inc.

Gordon, Anne, Carole Kuhns, Renee Loeffler, and Roberto Agodini. 1999. Experiences of Vir-ginia Time Limit Families in the Six Months After Case Closure: Results for an Early Cohort — Final Report. Princeton, NJ: Mathematica Policy Research, Inc.

Hunter-Manns, Jo Anna, and Dan Bloom. 1999. Connecticut Post-Time Limit Tracking Study: Six-Month Survey Results. New York: Manpower Demonstration Research Corporation.

Hunter-Manns, Jo Anna, Dan Bloom, Richard Hendra, and Johanna Walter. 1998. Connecticut Post-Time Limit Tracking Study: Three-Month Survey Results. New York: Manpower Demonstration Research Corporation.

Massachusetts Department of Transitional Assistance. 2000. After Time Limits: A Study of Households Leaving Welfare Between December 1998 and April 1999. Boston: Author.

Melton, Laura, and Dan Bloom. 2000. Connecticut’s Jobs First Program: An Analysis of Welfare Leavers. New York: Manpower Demonstration Research Corporation.

Richardson, Philip, Kim Reniero, Susan LaFever, Gregg Schoenfeld, and Frances Jackson. 2000. Study of Families Leaving Work First in Selected Counties: Results of the First Round of Follow-Up Surveys (North Carolina; non-time-limited leavers). Reston, VA: MAXIMUS.

Richardson, Philip, Kim Reniero, Mark Tecco, Susan LaFever, and Greg Schoenfeld. 2000. Study of Families Leaving Work First Due to Time Limits: Results of the Second Follow-Up Surveys (North Carolina). Reston, VA: MAXIMUS.

Richardson, Philip, Gregg Schoenfeld, Susan LaFever, Frances Jackson, and Mark Tecco. 2001. Welfare Leavers and Diverters Research Study: One-Year Follow-Up of Welfare Leavers (South Carolina). Reston, VA: MAXIMUS.

Richardson, Philip, Richard White, Mark Tecco, Susan LaFever, and Mary Ann Kerttula. 1999. Study of Families Leaving Work First After Reaching the 24-Month Time Limit: Results of the First Follow-Up Surveys (North Carolina). Reston, VA: MAXIMUS.

Taylor, Mary Jane, Amanda Smith Barusch, and Mary Beth Vogel. 2000. Multiple Impacts of Welfare Reform in Utah: Experience of Former Long-term Welfare Recipients. Salt Lake City: University of Utah, Graduate School of Social Work.

Caseload and Econometric Studies

Blank, Rebecca. 2001. “Declining Caseloads/Increased Work: What Can We Conclude About the Effects of Welfare Reform?” Economic Policy Review (September). New York: Federal Reserve Bank of New York.

Council of Economic Advisors. 1999. The Effects of Welfare Policy and the Economic Expansion on Welfare Caseloads: An Update. Washington, DC: Author.

Grogger, Jeffrey. 2000. Time Limits and Welfare Use. Unpublished manuscript. UCLA: School of Public Policy and Social Research.

Grogger, Jeffrey, and Charles Michalopoulos. 2001. “Welfare Dynamics Under Time Limits.” NBER Working Paper No. w7353 (September). Cambridge, MA: National Bureau of Economic Research.

Hofferth, Sandra, Stephen Stanhope, and Katheleen Mullen Harris. 2001. “Exiting Welfare in the 1990s: Did Public Policy Influence Recipients’ Behavior?” Unpublished manuscript. College Park, MD: University of Maryland, Department of Family Studies.

Schoeni, Robert, and Rebecca Blank. 2000. “What Has Welfare Reform Accomplished? Impacts on Welfare Participation, Employment, Income, Poverty, and Family Structure.” NBER Working Paper No. w7627 (March). Cambridge, MA: National Bureau of Economic Research.

General References on Time Limits

Bloom, Dan. 1999. Welfare Time Limits: An Interim Report Card. New York: Manpower Demonstration Research Corporation.

Bloom, Dan, and David Butler. 1995. Implementing Time-Limited Welfare: Early Experiences in Three States. New York: Manpower Demonstration Research Corporation.

Brown, Amy, Dan Bloom, and David Butler. 1997. The View from the Field: As Time Limits Approach, Welfare Recipients and Staff Talk About Their Attitudes and Expectations. New York: Manpower Demonstration Research Corporation.

Falk, Gene, Emilie Stolzfus, Holly Goodliffe, and Courtney Schroeder. 2001. Welfare Reform: Time Limits Under TANF. Washington, DC: Congressional Research Service.

Greenberg, Mark, Steve Savner, and Rebecca Swartz. 1996. Limits on Limits: State and Federal Policies on Welfare Time Limits. Washington, DC: Center on Law and Social Policy.

Moffitt, Robert, and LaDonna A. Pavetti. 2000. “Time Limits.” In David Card and Rebecca Blank, eds., Finding Jobs: Work and Welfare Reform. New York: Russell Sage Foundation.

Pavetti, LaDonna, and Dan Bloom. 2001. “State Sanctions and Time Limits.” In Rebecca Blank and Ron Haskins, eds., The New World of Welfar. Washington, DC: Brookings Institution.

Schott, Liz. 2000. Ways That States Can Serve Families That Reach Welfare Time Limits. Washington, DC: Center on Budget and Policy Priorities.

U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation. 1997. Setting the Baseline: A Report on State Welfare Waivers. Wash-ington, DC: Author.

U.S. General Accounting Office. 1998. Welfare Reform: Child Support an Uncertain Income Supplement for Families Leaving Welfare. Washington, DC: Author.



 

 

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