Machine generated contents note: 1 Welfare Reform: An Agenda for Reauthorization -- Ron Haskins and Rebecca M. Blank -- Part II: The Biggest Issues -- 2 Implementation of the Personal Responsibility -- Act of 1996 -- Thomas L. Gais, Richard P? Nathan, Irene Lurie, -- and Thomas Kaplan --...

Introduction / John Chubb and Tom Loveless -- Would smaller classes help close the Black-white achievement gap? / Alan B. Krueger and Diane M. Whitmore -- Exploring explanations for ethnic differences in voucher impacts on student test scores / Paul E. Peterson and William G. Howell -- Reducing...

Introduction / Caroline Moser -- Intergenerational asset accumulation and poverty reduction in Guayaquil, Ecuador, 1978-2004 / Caroline Moser and Andrew Felton -- Learning from asset-based approaches to poverty / Michael R. Carter -- The stages-of-progress methodology and results from five...

"Argues that incoherent social programs significantly contribute to poverty and little growth. Proposes converting the existing social security system into universal social entitlements. Advocates eliminating wage-based social security contributions and raising consumption taxes on higher-income...

Presents new research by leading scholars in Australia and the United States on economic factors that influence children's development and the respective social policies the two nations have designed to boost human capital development. - Provided by publisher