Subgroup Impacts of Large-Scale Welfare Employment Programs
利用随机实验数据，分析针对不同依赖程度的福利受助者的就业项目效果，发现窄目标定位策略的效果取决于政策制定者对减少福利依赖与增加家庭收入的权重。
Recent research has suggested that employment programs for welfare recipients may be most effective if resources a re systematically targeted on those most likely to remain on public assistance a long time. Data from a series of random assignment fiel d experiments testing low- to moderate-cost welfare employment program s are utilized to examine targeting alternatives for adult Aid to Families with Dependent Children recipients. The empirical evidence does not provide unqualified supp ort for narrow targeting of either the least or most dependent welfare groups and suggests that a choice among strategies may depend on the relative weights policymakers place on reducing welfare versus increasing family income. Copyright 1993 by MIT Press.