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Jobs First

Final Report on Connecticut’s Welfare Reform Initiative

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Title Page

Overview

List of Exhibits

Preface

Acknowledgments

Executive Summary

Summary Report

1. Background: Jobs First and the Evaluation
2. Evaluation Results
3. Conclusions and Policy Implications

Chapter

1   Introduction

1. The Policy Context of Jobs First
2. The Jobs First Program Model
3. The Jobs First Evaluation
4. The State of Connecticut, the Research Sites, and the Jobs First Target Population
5. About This Report

2   The Implementation of Jobs First: Services, Mandates, and Message

1. Summary
2. Background and Context
3. Employment Services and Mandates
4. Other Services
5. The Message

3   The Implementation of Jobs First: The Time Limit

1. Summary
2. The Time-Limit Message
3. The Time-Limit Review Process
4. How Quickly Jobs First Group Members Reached the Time Limit
5. After the Time Limit: Extensions and Case Closures
6. Characteristics of Cases with Multiple Extensions
7. Outcomes for Families After the Time Limit
8. Services After the Time Limit

4   The Effects of Jobs First on Employment and Public Assistance

1. Summary of Findings
2. Data and Sample
3. What Is an Impact?
4. Estimated Effects of Jobs First
5. Effects of Jobs First on Subgroups
6. Discussion

5   Jobs First’s Impact on Noneconomic Outcomes

1. Summary of Findings
2. Impacts on Household Composition, Marriage, and Childbearing
3. Impacts on Housing Status and Mobility
4. Impacts on Savings, Assets, and Debt
5. Health Insurance Coverage
6. Exposure to Hardships
7. Impacts on Key Survey Outcomes for Subgroups

6   The Effects of Jobs First on Children

1. Summary of Findings
2. How Might Jobs First Affect Children and Families?
3. Sample and Measures
4. Impacts of Jobs First on Child Care Arrangements and the Use of Child Care Subsidies
5. Impacts of Jobs First on Father Involvement
6. Comparison of Children in the AFDC Group with Children in a National Sample
7. Impacts on Home Environment, Family Functioning, and Parenting Practices
8. Impacts on Children’s Outcomes
9. Impacts on Adolescents’ Outcomes
10. Conclusion

7   The Costs and Benefits of Jobs First

1. Summary of Findings
2. Issues in the Cost Analysis
3. Major Components of the Cost Analysis
4. Expenditures for Employment-Related Services While Sample Members Received AFDC/TFA
5. Expenditures for Employment-Related Services While Sample Members Did Not Receive AFDC/TFA
6. Gross Costs of Jobs First and AFDC
7. Net Cost of Jobs First
8. Analytical Approach for the Benefit-Cost Analysis
9. Jobs First’s Effects for Participants
10. Net Gains and Losses, by Accounting Perspective
11. Jobs First’s Benefits and Costs: Conclusions

Appendices

	A   Supplementary Exhibits to Chapters 2 and 3
	B   Supplementary Tables to Chapter 4
	C   Calculations of Tax-Adjusted Income
	D   Three-Year Survey Response Analysis
	E   Supplementary Table to Chapter 5
	F   Descriptive Analyses of Jobs First Group Members
	G   Measures of Child and Family Functioning
	H   Effect Sizes for Impacts on Child and Family Functioning
	I   Subgroup Tables

References

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