Understanding Best Practices for Operating Welfare-To-Work Programs

James A. Riccio and Alan Orenstein
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James A. Riccio: Manpower Demonstration Research Corporation
Alan Orenstein: Manpower Demonstration Research Corporation

Evaluation Review, 1996, vol. 20, issue 1, 3-28

Abstract: This study explores the relationships between program practices and program impacts on earnings and welfare payments in California's welfare-to-work program, known as GAIN. Practices and impacts (based on a random assignment experiment) are compared across six counties and (on some measures) 20 local offices. The findings challenge some popular theories of "what works best" in welfare-to-work programs and illustrate how comparisons of a small number of sites within multisite studies can help researchers "get inside the black box, " a common problem in evaluation research.

Date: 1996
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DOI: 10.1177/0193841X9602000101

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