Tues
day, August 27, 2002
CHILD CARE PERCEPTIONS AND PATTERNS
Parents’ Perceptions: Child Care, Subsidy Use and Work
among Low-Income Families in Virginia
Carole Kuhns, Ph.D. and Renee
Loeffler, Ph.D, Center for Public Administration and Policy, Virginia Tech
Patterns of Child Care Use Among Low-Income Families
Nancy Burstein and Kevin Cahil,
Abt Associates, Inc.
POTPOURRI
Employment Retention
and Advancement for the Working Poor: Early Lessons in Implementation
Ethnicity and Child Welfare Services in California:
What are the Numbers?
Barbara Needell, Ph.D., and Terry
Shaw, University of California, Berkeley
Willingness to Pay for Food Store Access: Findings from
the National Food Stamp Program Survey
Margaret Andrews, Economic
Research Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture and James Ohls, Mathematica
Policy Research Inc.
THE WELFARE REFORM EXPERIENCE II
Work Requirements
for Welfare Participants in Tennessee: Have They Encouraged Self- Sufficiency?
John Deskins, Donald Bruce, and
Angela Thacker, Center for Business and Economic Research, University of
Tennessee
Angela Gomez and Jessica Pearlman,
University of Florida Mental Health Institute
Thomas E. Lengyel, Alliance for
Children and Families, Jennifer Borel, Stephen F. Austin State University,
Brenda Dunn, Buckner Child & Family Services
DATA WAREHOUSE AND WEB-BASED APPLICATIONS
Evaluation programs
for Government Web-Based Human Services
Jim Frech and Tasha Harris, The
Finance Project
Using Mandated Federal Reporting for the Creation of a
Low Cost Longitudinal TANF Participation Data Warehouse Linking Program
Participation Activities With Recidivism: A Micro Desktop Application for
Mid-Level Management Decision Support
Helen Anne Sweeney, North East
Technologies
Swati Desai, Ph.D., NYC Human
Resources Administration, and Joanna Weissman, American Management Systems
ANALYSIS OF THE EFFECTS OF STATE AND FEDERAL WELFARE AND
CHILD CARE PROGRAM RULES USING CASE SIMULATION METHODS: EXAMPLES FROM TWO
FEDERAL AGENCIES
Marginal Tax and
Benefit Reduction Rates Before and After PRWORA
Gilbert Crouse, U.S. Department of
Health and Human Services
Increasing TANF Work Requirements: Potential Effects on
Employment and State “Workfare” Programs
Christine Devere, Congressional
Research Service
Increasing TANF Work Requirements: Potential Effects
on Child Care
Tom Gabe, Congressional Research
Service
ADOLESCENTS AT RISK
Identifying Risk
Factors Among Adolescent Victims of Natural Disasters
Larry Kreuger, Ph.D., University
of Missouri-Columbia, and John J. Stretch, Ph.D., Saint Louis University
Welfare Reform: Adolescent Girls in Transition
Roger A. Boothroyd, Ph.D., Mary I.
Armstrong, Diane Haynes, Angela Gomez, Rhonda Ort, and John Perez, Ph.D.,
University of South Florida
The Effect of Maternal Employment and Welfare
Participation on High School Dropout and Juvenile Delinquency (Mover to 3-F)
Robert M. Goerge, Chapin Hall
Center for Children, University of Chicago
WHAT ABOUT EMPLOYERS II?
Explaining
Welfare/Non-Welfare Stability in Large Urban Area: The Role of Individual and
Employer Factors
Christopher T. King, Ph.D., Lyndon
B. Johnson School of Public Affairs, University of Texas-Austin, Peter R. Mueser,
Ph.D., Department of Economics, University of Missouri-Columbia, and Shiferaw
Gurmu, Ph.D., Department of Economics, Georgia State University
Barriers to Implementation of New Approaches to
Employment Services: An Interim Report
Sara K. Marsh, Kristin Seefeldt,
and Sandra Danziger, University of Michigan
To What Extent is
the Unemployment Insurance System A Safety Net for Welfare Recipients Who Exit
Welfare for Work?
STUDIES ABOUT WELFARE LEAVERS II
Post Program
Experience of Welfare Leavers: Evidence from the First Wave of the Families
First Longitudinal Survey
Angela Thacker and Donald Bruce,
Center for Business and Economic Research, University of Tennessee
Jan Losby, Institute for Social
and Economic Development
Welfare Leavers in Tennessee: For Better or for Worse
Deborah Godwin Perkins, Ph.D. and
Karen Homer, UT SWORPS
PROGRAM PARTICIPATION
Comings and Goings:
The Changing Dynamics of Welfare in the 1990's
Gregory Acs, Katherin Ross
Phillips, Carolin Ratcliffe, and Douglas Wissoker, The Urban Institute
Multilevel Estimates of State and City Variation in
Welfare Participation
Nancy E. Reichman Ph.D., Office of
Population Research, Princeton University, and Julien O. Teitler, School of
Social Work, Columbia University
Van T. Le, Multnomah County Office
of Budget and Quality, and John W. Tapogna, ECONorthwest
Concurrent Session 4-C (Nevada)
ALTERNATIVE DATA ANALYSES
Propensity Score
Matching on Commonly Available Nonexperimental Comparison Groups
Wang S. Lee, Abt Associates, Inc.
Using Alternative Data Analysis Method in Looking for the
Meaning Behind Idaho’s Latest Leavers Study Results
Scott Grothe, Idaho Department of
Health and Welfare
Danielle E. Ruedt and Theresa Ann
Sipe, Ph.D., Georgia State University
FOOD SECURITY AND FOOD STAMP USE
Food Stamp Use Among
Former Welfare Recipients
Cynthia Miller, MDRC
Measuring the Food Security of Young and Old: Do Standard
Methods Work for Households with Very Young Children and for Elderly
Mark Nord, Economic Research
Service
Has Welfare Reform Led to Increased Use of Private Food
Assistance? The Evidence from the
Kansas City Metropolitan Area
Jane Mosley, Institute of Public
Policy, University of Missouri-Columbia, and Laura Tiehen, U.S. Department of
Agriculture
CHALLENGES OF COUNTING “THE TRUE TANF CASELOAD”
Redefining a Case in
the Postreform Era: Reconciling Caseload with Workload
Rebecca Swartz, Hudson Institute
Welfare Reform: States Provide TANF-Funded Services to
Many Low-Income Families Who Do Not Receive Cash Assistance
Indiana Site Visit
Rachael Weber, Gale Harris,
Kathleen Peyman, and Kristy Brown, U.S. General Accounting Office, Tom Corbett,
Institute for Research on Poverty, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Joel Rabb,
Ohio Department of Job and Family Services, and Don Winstead, U.S. Department of
Health and Human Services
Workload Analysis Study of Income Support Staff in
New Mexico
Mark Tecco, MAXIMUS, Inc. and Mary
Beth Maestas, New Mexico Human Services Department
HOUSING, SUBSIDIES, AND TRANSPORTATION
Housing Subsidies
and Labor Supply: How Far Reaching are the Effects of Housing Subsidies?
Theresa Heintze, Lawrene M Berger,
and Wendy Naidich, School of Social Work, Columbia University
John M. Martinez, MDRC
Car Ownership and Other Transportation Solutions:
Their Role in Making Work Work
Greg Owen and Ellen Shelton,
Wilder Research Center
INDICATORS OF YOUTH WELL-BEING
The Role of
Indicators of Youth Well-Being in Policy, Planning Development and Evaluation:
Reflections from State Youth Indicators Project
Martha Moorehouse, Department of
Health and Human Services, Office of the Secretary,
Mairead Reidy and Carolyn Winje,
Chapin Hall Center for Children, University of Chicago
NON-CUSTODIAL PARENTS ACCESS TO CHILDREN
Improving
Access/Visitation Services for Noncustodial Parents in Georgia
Robert L. Fischer, Ph.D., Case
Western Reserve University, and Gerry White, Families First A Work Initiative Program Focused on Child Support Obligators
Theresa Ann Sipe, Ph.D. and
Danielle E. Ruedt, Georgia State University
Supporting the Children of Cohabiting Couples: Are
formal support orders necessary?
Irwin Garfinkel and Theresa
Heintze, School of Social Work, Columbia University
WELFARE REFORM IN URBAN AND RURAL POPULATIONS
Conceptualizing the Interface Among Family, Community,
and Labor Force Participation for Rural Limited Resource Families
Elizabeth M. Dolan and Bonnie
Braun, University of Maryland, Kathy Prochaska-Cue, University of Nebraska, and
Karen Varcoe, University of California
Tribal TANF Allows Flexibility to Tailor Programs, But
Changes Needed to Better Respond to Conditions on Indian Reservations
Clarita Mrena, Kathryn Larin and
Robert Sampson, Education, Workforce, and Income Security, U.S. General
Accounting Office
Addressing Welfare Clients’ Employment Barriers in
Rural and Urban Communities
THE INTERSECTION OF THE EDUCATIONAL AND WELFARE SYSTEMS
Using Incentives: An
Effective Strategy for Improving Outcomes
Mary Ziegler and Olga Ebert,
Center for Literacy Studies
Low-income Student Success Results from an Integrated
Support System at the Postsecondary Level
Kayleigh Carabajal, Albuquerque
Technical-Vocational Institute
Expanding Employment Options by Confronting Low
Educational Levels: Outcomes of Adult Education for Welfare Recipients
Olga Ebert and Mary Ziegler, Center for Literacy Studies
SURVEY RESPONSE ANALYSES
An Analysis of
Non-Response Among Fathers in the Fragile Families and Child Well-Being Study
Marilyn Sinkewicz, School of
Social Work, Columbia University
Using Applied Behavior Analysis to Improve Survey Contact
Rates: Experiences from the Tennessee Longitudinal Study
Haskel D. Harrison, Ed.D,
University of Memphis
Respondent Bias in the Study of Child Maltreatment
Christina Paxson, Princeton
University, and Lawrence M. Berger, Columbia University
DIVERSION STRATEGIES
Diversion Strategies
in Maryland: Prevalence and Outcomes
Darren Lacey, Andrea
Hetling-Wernyj, and Catherine E. Born, School of Social Work, University of
Maryland
Deana Goldsmith and Vincent M.
Valvano, Ph.D., Berkeley Policy Associates
An Alternative to
TANF: Experience with Kentucky’s Family Alternative Diversion
Program
Gerard Barber, Ph.D. and Bob
Daugherty, Kent School of Social Work, University of Louisville, and Dan McAdam,
Urban Studies Institute, University of Louisville
SCHEDULING, QUALITY AND COST OF CHILD CARE
Nonstandard Work
Schedules, Child Care, and Child Outcomes
Wen-Jui Han, School of Social
Work, Columbia University
The Impact of Welfare Reform on Child Care for
Low-Income Families
Jean I. Layzer, Abt Associates,
Inc., and Ann Collins, Columbia University
Child Care: States Undertook a Variety of Quality
Improvement Initiatives, But Few Evaluations Were Conducted
Sara E. Edmondson, Cara L.
Jackson, and Jyoti Gupta, U.S. Accounting Office
CHARACTERISTICS OF INDIVIDUAL BARRIERS TO EMPLOYMENT
AND RETENTION I
Findings from the
Supplemental Security Income (SSI) Family Impact Study
Kathy Lazear, University of South
Florida Mental Health Institute
John Tapogna and Tom Guardino,
ECONorthwest, and Joseph Entwisle, State of Wisconsin Department of Health and
Family Services
Good Works!: Providing Work and Support for TANF
Recipients When the Labor Market Fails
TIME LIMITS AND CONSEQUENCES
Time limits: The
Continuing Story
Mary Farrell, The Lewin Group, and
Dan Bloom and Barbara Fink, MDRC
Explaining Involuntary TANF Exits under Welfare Reform:
Implications for Reauthorization
Vicky Albert, School of Social
Work, University of Nevada, Las Vegas
Earning Back Time: Who Would Benefit from
Work-Related Time Limit Exemptions?
Katherine Ross Phillips, The Urban
Institute
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