Table of Contents
Tables and Figures
About The Authors
Preface
Acknowledgments and Dedication
Chapter 1. Introduction: The Issue, the Method, and the Story in Brief
Chapter 2. They Said It Couldn’t Be Done: The National Supported Work Demonstration
Chapter 3. Bridge to the 1980s: Implementing Random Assignment in Work Incentive Program Offices and Testing a Job Guarantee
Chapter 4. Inventing a New Paradigm: The States as Laboratories
Chapter 5. The Reagan Revolution and Research Capacity Within the Department of Health and Human Services: From Near Destruction to New Growth
Chapter 6. The Work/Welfare Demonstration: Lessons About Programs, Research, and Dissemination
Chapter 7. Waiver Evaluations: How Random Assignment Evaluation Came to Be the Standard for Approval
Chapter 8. Expanding the Agenda: The Role of Basic Education
Chapter 9. The JOBS Evaluation: Cumulative Evidence on Basic Education Versus Work First
Chapter 10. Expanding the Agenda II: Three Experiments to Make Work Pay
Chapter 11. The End of Our Story: Welfare Reform Recedes from the Spotlight of Random Assignment Program Evaluation
Chapter 12. Conclusion and Lessons
Coda. Random Assignment Takes Center Stage
Appendix
Abbreviations
Notes
Note on Sources
References
Index