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General Information
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| Evaluator(s) |
Abt Associates, Inc.
Health Systems Research
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| Investigator(s) |
Alan Werner
(Abt Associates, Inc.)
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| Domain |
Income Security/TANF
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| Status |
Completed (final report released)
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| Duration |
Jul 2000 - Jul 2002
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| Type |
Research and/or Program Evaluation
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| Program/Policy Description |
Description: This project will collect systematic and comprehensive information about changes in the application process under TANF and the State data systems measuring application events and their results. This information will be used to understand how those changes and data systems affect the meaning of applications data and their comparability across States and over time.
Major Research Questions: What applications policies and procedures for TANF cash assistance are being used by states? What are the content, quality, and format of application data? What are the implications of differences in application activities for comparability of application data? For any given State, is there comparability over time? How does the TANF application process operate in the local office context? What are the results of the application process? What is the potential for diversion? How have the numbers and rates of applications and approvals changed since implementation of TANF? What is the qualitative evidence on the effects of changes in application policies and procedures on applications and approvals?
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| Notes |
No notes reported.
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| Last Updated |
07/18/03
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| Type of Summary |
Unreviewed
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| Contact(s) |
Maureen Cook (maureen_cook@abtassoc.com)
Abt Associates, Inc.
55 Wheeler Street
(T) (617) 349-2794
(F) not reported
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| Submitter(s) |
Research Forum Staff (info@researchforum.org)
National Center for Children In Poverty
215 West 125th St, 3rd Fl
(T) (646)284-9600
(F) not reported
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Populations Studied
| Target Population |
Applicants
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| Subgroups Analyzed |
None
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| Sample Size and Unit |
The first major undertaking of the study will be a survey of all 54 States and Territories that will begin with the collection of policy manuals, application forms, descriptions of system application files and entry screens, and historical statistical reports on applications, approvals, and diversionary benefits. This will be followed by a data collection effort that focuses more intensively on 10 to 20 States, including the six States that will be chosen for subsequent case studies and case abstractions.
The second major undertaking of the study will be the case studies and case abstractions conducted at a site in each of six States selected on the basis of variation in application outcomes, as well as on variations in policies and procedures. The first task of this undertaking will be a prospective data collection that will provide information about pre-application experiences and will ask questions directly of applicants and non-applicants about their application experiences, their decisions, and the reasons for those decisions. This will be followed by the abstraction of data from a probability sample of cases.
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| Execution |
Not reported.
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Sites Studied
50 U.S. states and 4 territories
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