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Current Projects
Panel on Data and Methods for Measuring the Effects of Changes in Social Welfare Programs
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Background
At the request of Congress, the Committee has convened a panel to review data needs and methods for evaluating the outcomes of recently-enacted changes in social welfare programs. Of particular interest are tracking and assessing the effects of program changes on people who leave the welfare rolls. The panel will consider alternative federal and state data sources; appropriate research methods for analysis and inference, considering the limitations of available data; and findings from research on and evaluation of previous welfare program changes. The panel plans a workshop in November to review and guide the relevant research to be conducted by a number of states. An interim report was issued in the fall of 1999 with the proceedings of the workshop and preliminary recommendations by the panel. A final report will be issued in the fall of 2000. The study is sponsored by the DHHS Office of the Assistant Secretary of Planning and Evaluation. Robert A. Moffitt, Johns Hopkins University, chairs the study.
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Roster
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- Robert A. Moffitt (Chair), Department of Economics, Johns Hopkins University
- John L. Adams, Statistics Group, RAND
- Thomas Corbett, Institute for Research on Poverty, University of Wisconsin-Madison
- John L. Czajka, Mathematica Policy Research, Inc., Washington, D.C.
- Kathryn Edin, Department of Sociology, University of Pennsylvania
- Irwin Garfinkel, School of Social Work, Columbia University
- Robert M. Goerge, Chapin Hall Center for Children, University of Chicago
- Eric A. Hanushek, Department of Economics, University of Rochester
- V. Joseph Hotz. Departments of Economics and Policy Studies, University of California, Los Angeles
- Richard A. Kulka, Research Triangle Institute, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina
- Rebecca A. Maynard, Graduate School of Education, University of Pennsylvania
- Suzanne M. Randolph, Department of Family Studies, University of Maryland
- Werner Schink, California Department of Social Services, Sacramento, California
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