Recently Completed Studies, 1999

• Early Implementation of the Welfare­to­Work Grants Program:  Report to Congress, March 1999, by Irma Perez-Johnson and Alan M. Hershey, Mathematica Policy Research, Inc.

• Description and Assessment of State Approaches to Diversion Programs and Activities under Welfare Reform.  An Interim Report of the Findings of the First Phase of the Research, by Kathleen A. Maloy, JD, PhD, LaDonna A. Pavetti, PhD, Peter Shin, MPH, Julie Darnell, MHSA, and Lea Scarpulla-Nolan, MA.  The George Washington University Center for Health Policy Research, August 1998

• Grants Awarded for Welfare Leavers Projects  This document contains a description of the proposals which were awarded funds to study the outcomes of welfare reform on individuals and families who leave the TANF program, who apply for cash welfare but are never enrolled because of non-financial eligibility requirements or diversion programs, and/or who appear to be eligible but are not enrolled.

• Ancillary Services to Support Welfare to Work by Amy Johnson and Alicia Mechstroth of Mathematica Policy Research Inc., June 22, 1998.

• Tracking Welfare Reform:  Designing Followup Studies of Recipients Who Leave Welfare by Evelyn Ganzglass and Susan Golonka of the National Governors' Association; Jack Tweedie of the National Conference of State Legislatures; and Suzanne Fialkof of the American Public Welfare Association. May 19, 1998.

• Working with Low-Income Cases:  Lessons for the Child Support Enforcement System from Parents' Fair Share, by Fred Doolittle and Suzanne Lynn of the Manpower Demonstration Research Corporation, May 1998.

• Building an Employment Focused Welfare System:  Work First and Other Work-Oriented Strategies in Five States by Pamela A. Holcomb, LaDonna Pavetti, Caroline Ratcliffe, Susan Riedinger of the Urban Institute, June 1998.

• National Evaluationof Welfare-to-Work Strategies Implementation, Participation Patterns, Costs, and Two-Year Impacts of the Portland (Oregon) Welfare-to-Work Programby Susan Scrivener, Gayle Hamilton, Mary Farrell, Stephen Freedman, Daniel Friedlander, Marisa Mitchell, Jodi Nudelman and Christine Schwartz, Manpower Demonstration Research Corporation, May 1998.

• A Child Support Enforcement Customer Satisfaction Survey  FINAL REPORT by Thérèse van Houten, D.S.W. of The Urban Institute and Brenda G. Cox, Ph.D. of Mathematica Policy Research, Inc., February 1998.

• Moving into Adulthood:  Were the Impacts of Mandatory Programs for Welfare-Dependent Teenage Parents Sustained After the Programs Ended by Ellen Eliason Kisker, Anu Rangarajan, and Kimberly Boller.  Princeton, NJ:  Mathematica Policy Research, February 1998.  (See also the Teenage Parent Demonstration and Evaluation web site.

• Evaluating Two Welfare-to-Work Program Approaches:  Two-Year Findings on the Labor Force Attachment and Human Capital Development Programs in Three Sites.  (Executive Summary) by Gayle Hamilton, Thomas Brock, Mary Farrell, Daniel Friedlander, and Kristen Harknett, with JoAnna Hunter-Manns, Johanna Walter and Joanna Weisman.  The National Evaluation of Welfare-to-Work Strategies.  Manpower Demonstration Research Corporation, December, 1997.

• Iowa's Limited Benefit Plan by Thomas M. Fraker, Lucia A. Nixon, Jan L. Losby, Carol S. Prindle and John F. Else of Mathematica Policy Research, Inc. and the Institute for Social and Economic Development, May, 1997.

• Indicators of Welfare Dependence:  Annual Report to Congressby the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, October, 1997.

• Determinants of AFDC Caseload Growth by David Stapleton, Gina Livermore, and Adam Tucker of The Lewin Group, Inc., July 25, 1997.

• Implementing Welfare Reform Requirements for Teenage Parents:  Lessons from Experience in Four States, by Robert G. Wood and John Burghardt, of Mathematica Policy Research, Inc., October 31, 1997.

• State Welfare Waivers:  An Overview Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation. June, 1997

• Evaluation of the Implementation of the Child Support Guidelines:  Part III USER'S GUIDE TO THE PUBLIC USE DATABASE (Database also available.)

• Work First:  How to Implement an Employment-Focused Approach to Welfare Reform.  ReWORKing Welfare:  Technical Assistance for States and Localities:  A How-to Guide.  by Amy Brown of the Manpower Demonstration Research Corp., March 1997.

• Approaches to Evaluating Welfare Reform:  Lessons from Five State Demonstrations.  by Anne Gordon, Jonathan Jacobson, and Thomas Fraker of Mathematica Policy Research, Inc., October, 1996.

• Personal and Family Challenges to the Successful Transition from Welfare to Work. Krista Olson and LaDonna Pavetti. The Urban Institute, May, 1996.

• Designing Welfare-to-Work Programs for Families Facing Personal or Family Challenges: Lessons from the Field. LaDonna Pavetti, Krista Olson, Nancy Pindus, and Marta Pernas of The Urban Institute and Julie Isaacs of the American Institutes for Research. December, 1996

• Non-Custodial Parent's Participation in Their Children's Lives: Evidence from the Survey of Income and Program Participation. Volume 1: Summary of SIPP Analysis by Christine Winquist Nord and Nicholas Zill of Westat, Inc. August, 1996.

• Non-Custodial Parent's Participation in Their Children's Lives: Evidence from the Survey of Income and Program Participation. Volume 2: Synthesis of Literature and Annotated Bibliography by Christine Winquist Nord and Nicholas Zill of Westat, Inc. August, 1996.

• Responsible Fathering: An Overview and Conceptual Framework, by William J. Doherty, Edward F. Kouneski, and Martha Farrell Erickson of the University of Minnesota. September, 1996. Executive Summary. Full Report.

• Welfare to Work: The Need to Take Place Differences in Account Hal Wolman, Ph.D. (January, 1996) Technical Analysis Paper No. 45

• The JOBS Evaluation: Monthly Participation Rates in Three Sites and Factors Affecting Participation Levels in Welfare-to-Work Programs. Gayle Hamilton (July, 1995) Executive Summary

• The JOBS Evaluation: Early Findings on Program Impacts in Three Sites Stephen Freedman and Daniel Friedlander (July, 1995) Executive Summary

• Can Administrative Data Kept by States be Used to Study the Duration of Program Participation? John Marcotte (1995). Executive Summary

• Increasing Participation in Work and Work-Related Activities:  Lessons from Five State Welfare Reform Demonstration Projects LaDonna A. Pavetti and Amy-Ellen Duke (1995). Executive Summary

• Evaluation of Transition to Work Demonstration Projects Using a Natural Supports Model. Ronald Conley, Riza Azzam and Arthur Mitchell (1995). Executive Summary

• Non-Custodial Fathers: Can They Afford to Pay More Child Support? by Elaine Sorenson (1995).  Executive Summary

• Child Support Payment Patterns Among AFDC Mothers in Massachusetts and Implications for TRIM2Laudan Y. Aron and Linda D. Giannarelli (1995).  Description

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