MFIP: Reforming Welfare and Rewarding Work: Final Report on the Minnesota Family Investment Program Volume 2: Effects on Children

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Title Page

Tables and Figures

Preface

Acknowledgments

Executive Summary

1. Introduction and Hypothesis
1. Introduction
2. The MFIP Model
3. The MFIP Evaluation
4. How May MFIP Afflict Children?
5. Key Questions
6. The Economic and Policy Contents of the MFIP Evaluation
7. Optimization of This Report
2. Data Sources and Samples
1. The Evaluation Sample
2. The Analysis Sample
3. Data Sources
4. Description of the Report Sample
5. Measuring the Effects of MFIP on Child Outcomes
3. MFIP’s Effects on the Children of Long-Term Recipients in Urban Counties
1. Summary of the Main Findings
2. MFIP’s Impacts on Program Implementation, Employment, Income, and Resources
3. MFIP’s Impacts on Childs’s and Family’s Environment
4. MFIP’s Impacts on Child Outcomes
5. MFIP’s Impacts on Selected Subgroups; Preschool-Age and School-Age Children; Girls and Boys; Blacks; Whites, and Other Ethnic Groups; and More Disadvantages Families
6. Conclusions
4. Understanding MFIP’s Effects on Children of Long-Term Recipients in Urban Counties
1. Decomposing the MFIP Intervention: Separating the Effects of Financial Incentives from the Effects of Adding Mandatory Services
2. Using the MFIP Intervention to Decompose the Effects of Income and the Effects of Employment
5. MFIP’s Effects on the Children of Recent Applicants in Urban Counties
1. Summary of the Main Findings
2. Overview of MFIP’s Impacts on Recent Applicants and Their Children
3. Why Did MFIP’s Effects on Children of Recent Applicants Differ from Its Effects on Children of Long-Term Recipients?
6. The Policy Implications of MFIP
1. The Magnitude and “Importance” of MFIP’s Impacts on Child Outcomes
2. Comparisons of Control Group Children with State and National Samples
3. The Policy Relevance of MFIP’s Effects on Depression, Domestic Abuse, and Marriage for Long-Term Recipients
4. Lessons from MFIP About Welfare Reform

Appendix A: Major Differences in Rules Under the AFDC System and MFIP

Appendix B: MFIP 36-Month Survey Response Analysis

Appendix C: Details About the Construction of Child and Family Outcomes

Appendix D: MFIP’s Effects on Children in All Counties and in Rural Counties

Appendix E: MFIP’s Effects on Selected Child Outcomes for All Children in the MFIP Evaluation

Appendix F: Summary of MFIP’s Impacts Converted into Effect Sizes

References

Selected Publications on MDRC Projects