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Arizona EMPOWER Welfare Reform Demonstration: Study Types

Types of Studies

Type Impact Study (Controlled Experiment)
Aim To examine the myriad of effects that the intervention has on participants.

To determine the overall effects of the EMPOWER demonstration and to provide detailed information about the outcomes attributable to the separate provisions of the EMPOWER demonstration.

 
Type Implementation/Process Study
Aim To provide a comprehensive picture of the developing, planning, start-up and ongoing operations of the EMPOWER components.

To provide information about the replicability of the program and its impacts.

 
Type Cost-Benefit Study
Aim To examine the cost-benefit implications from all relevant perspectives: participants, the federal government; the state government; and society as a whole.

To examine if families were better off with EMPOWER than they would be without the intervention (based on gains in earnings that surpass losses in benefits) and if the government’s budget is better off with EMPOWER (based on declines in assistance payments that offset operating costs).

 

 
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