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MFIP: Reforming Welfare and Rewarding Work: Final Report on the Minnesota Family Investment Program Volume 1: Effects on Adults

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Title Page

List of Tables and Figures

Preface

Acknowledgments

Executive Summary

1. Introduction
1. Background
2. Comparison of MFIP and AFDC
3. The MFIP Evaluation
4. The Context of the MFIP Field Trails
5. To What Extent Can the Field Trial Results Help Predict the Effects of MFIP -S?
6. Organization of This Report
2. Research Samples, Data Sources, and Characteristics of the Samples
1. I. Research Samples
2. II. Data Sources
3. III. Characteristics, Opinions, and Attitudes of Families in the MFIP Sample
3. MFIP’s Effects on Single Parents’ Participation in Employment and Training Services and on Their Educational Attainment
1. Introduction
2. Data, Methods, and Outcomes
3. Expected Effects of the MFIP Employment and Training Model
4. Summary of MFIP’s Effects on Single Parents’ Participation
5. Effects on Participation for Long-Term Recipients in Single Parent - Families
6. Effects on Participation for Recent Applicants in Single Parent - Families
7. Single Parents’ Participation in Activities at the End of Follow-Up
8. Summary of MFIP’s Effects on Participation and Educational Attainment
4. MFIP’s Effects on Single-Parent Long-Term Recipients
1. Introduction
2. Summary of the Findings
3. Expected Effects of MFIP
4. Effects on Single -Parent Long-Term Recipients in Urban Counties
5. Effects on Single -Parent Long -Term Recipients in Rural Counties
6. A Closer Look at the Urban MFIP Group: Finding and Keeping Jobs
7. Highlights from Volume 2, Effects on Children
8. Summary and Conclusions
5. MFIP’s Effects on Single-Parent Recent Applicants
1. Introduction
2. Summary of the Findings
3. Effects on Single -Parent Recent Applicants in Urban Counties
4. Effects on Single -Parent Recent Applic ants in Rural Counties
5. Highlights from Volume 2, Effects on Children
6. Summary and Conclusions
6. MFIP’s Effects on Two-Parent Families
1. Summary of the Findings
2. Expected Effects of MFIP
3. Analysis Groups and Strategies
4. Effects on Two-Parent Recipient Families
5. Effects on Two-Parent Applicant Families
6. Conclusion and Review of Other Antipoverty and Welfare Programs for Two-Parent Families
7. Benefit-Cost Analysis
1. Summary of the Findings
2. Background
3. The Analytical Approach
4. Benefits and Costs for Single -Parent Long-Term Recipients in Urban Counties
5. Results for MFIP’s Other Subgroups
6. MFIP’s Benefits and Costs: Summary and Conclusions

Appendix A Evaluation of STRIDE in Hennepin County

Appendix B Participants’ Knowledge of Programs and Perception of Benefit Time Limit

Appendix C Evaluation of the Food Stamps Only Group

Appendix D Data Issues and Survey Response Analysis

Appendix E Quarterly Impacts on Employment, Earnings, and Welfare Benefits

Appendix F Effects on Participation for Two-Parent Families

Appendix G Summary of SIME/DIME and Comparison with MFIP

Appendix H Estimated Net Gains and Losses for Members of the Child Outcomes Sample

References

Selected Publications on MDRC Projects

 

 

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