We illustrate the use of nonparametnc quantile regression in examining the impacts of social programs on the distributions of noncategorical outcome measures. We apply the method to earnings effects and income effects in four evaluations of employment and training programs for welfare...

A recent random assignment evaluation of California's Greater Avenues for Independence (GAIN) program showed that welfare recipients required to participate in basic education did not improve reading and math skills relative to controls. Reliability of test score effects estimates was reduced,...

We present results from a special federal demonstration funded to examine the feasibility and effectiveness of imposing on able-bodied welfare recipients a universal and ongoing obligation to work or to participate in activities intended to lead to work. Using a classical random assignment...

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...

This article examines past evaluations of government training programs for the economically disadvantaged and offers an agenda for future research. It is found that government training programs are producing modest increases in earnings for adult men and women, but are probably not producing...

The control group of families with female heads, from the Denver Income Maintenance Experiment, is utilized in this analysis of AFDC turnover. This study uses event history techniques, a methodology that is more appropriate for exploring welfare dynamics than the logit approach of earlier work....