New Findings on Welfare and Children's Development Summary of a Research Briefing (1997) / Chapter Skim
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How the Effects of Welfare Have Been Studied
How the Effects of Welfare Have Been Studied
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The research presented at the April 1996 briefing dealt directly with these challenges to trying to understand how welfare affects children. The investigators used state-ofthe-art methods to disentangle the developmental effects of welfare from other factors that characterize recipient families, looked at questions of the timing of welfare receipt and its effects, and drew on the large tongitudinal studies that constitute the most sophisticated national data sets now avaiTable for analysis.
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present rations of several current demonstrations involving random assignment that have the potential to provide major insights into the relative importance of welfare itself versus simple selection. These demonstrations are summarized in boxes that appear throughout this document.
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