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How Important Are 'Entry Effects' in Financial Incentive Programs for Welfare Recipients? Experimental Evidence from the Self-Sufficiency Project. SRDC Working Papers.

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Card, David; Robins, Philip K.; Lin, Winston – 1997

The Self-Sufficiency Project (SSP) entry effect experiment was designed to measure the effect of the future availability of an earnings supplement on the behavior of newly enrolled income assistance (IA) recipients. It used a classical randomized design. From a sample of 3,315 single parents who recently started a new period of IA, one-half were…

Descriptors: Adult Education, Demonstration Programs, Developed Nations, Economically Disadvantaged

SSP Plus at 36 Months: Effects of Adding Employment Services to Financial Work Incentives.

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Lei, Ying; Michalopoulos, Charles – 2001

A study examined effects of the Self-Sufficiency Project (SSP) Plus program. A small group of long-term income assistance (IA) recipients in New Brunswick was offered an earnings supplement and employment services (SSP Plus); a second group was offered the regular SSP earnings supplement only; and a third group was offered neither supplement nor…

Descriptors: Adult Education, Career Planning, Demonstration Programs, Developed Nations

Homelessness and the Homeless: Responses and Innovations. A Canadian Contribution to IYSH 1987.

Oberlander, H. Peter; Fallick, Arthur L. – 1988

This report presents descriptions of successful Canadian public and private programs to aid the homeless and alleviate homelessness as part of participation in the International Year of Shelter for the Homeless (IYSH). Part 1, "The International Year of Shelter for the Homeless," includes the following: (1) objectives; (2) global…

Descriptors: City Government, Construction Programs, Cooperative Programs, Demonstration Programs