Publications
View a list of publications for each of the following topics:
Child Care, Early
Education and Head Start · Child Welfare and Child
Abuse · Education
· Elderly · Family Policy, Marriage, and
Divorce · Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), Food Assistance, and WIC · Health Care Policy · Income and Poverty · International and
Cross-National Studies · Pay for Success, Pay for Results & SIBS · Program Evaluation · Social Policy · Teen Sex and Non-Marital
Births · Welfare
Reform
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Books, Monographs, and Papers
Rethinking Expanded WIC Eligibility and Enrollment [PDF], R Street Policy Study No. 76, December 2016
Douglas J. Besharov and Douglas M. Call
The Expansion of WIC Eligibility and Enrollment: Time to Re-Think Policies and Practices, [PDF], 2016 (Updating a 2009 report)
Douglas J. Besharov and Douglas M. Call
Discouraging Marriage: The hidden cost of means-tested government benefits [PDF], The Weekly Standard, September 21, 2015
Douglas J. Besharov and Neil Gilbert
Marriage Penalties in the Modern Social-Welfare State [PDF], R Street Policy Study No. 40, September 2015
Douglas J. Besharov and Neil Gilbert
A Focus On Results [PDF], Accenture, September 2015
Gary Glickman and Douglas J. Besharov
Declining Labor Force Participation and the Expanding Social Safety Net [PDF], Index of Culture and Opportunity, The Heritage Foundation, August 2015
Douglas J. Besharov and Douglas M. Call
Reconceiving SNAP: Is Nutritional Assistance Really Income Support? [PDF], Research on Social Work Practice, June 15, 2015
Douglas J. Besharov
Recent Developments in Labor Activation in Denmark [PDF], December 5, 2013
Douglas J. Besharov and Douglas M. Call
Recent Developments in Disability Policy in the Netherlands [PDF], November 26, 2013
Douglas J. Besharov and Douglas M. Call
Recent Developments in Labor Activation in the United Kingdom [PDF], September 9, 2013
Douglas J. Besharov and Douglas M. Call
Asian Social Protection in Comparative Perspective [PDF], Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, Fall 2013
Douglas J. Besharov and Karen J. Baehler
Teaching in Today's Global Classroom: Policy Analysis in Cross-National Settings [PDF], Journal of Public Affairs Education, Summer 2013
Douglas J. Besharov and Jennifer Oser
Trends in Migration and Migration Policy [PDF], Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, Summer 2013
Douglas J. Besharov, Mark H. Lopez, and Melissa Siegel
Labor Activation in a Time of High Unemployment: Lesson from Abroad [PDF], Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, Spring 2013
Douglas J. Besharov, Douglas M. Call, and Stefano Scarpetto
Improving the Quality of Public Services: A Multinational Conference on Public Management [PDF], Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, Winter 2013
Douglas J. Besharov, Alexey Barabashev, Karen J. Baehler, and Jacob Alex Klerman
Social Impact Bonds: What's the buzz about? [PDF], May 11, 2012
Douglas J. Besharov, Jitinder Kohli, and Kristina Costa
Inside a Social Impact Bond Agreement-Exploring the Contract Challenges of a New Social Finance Mechanism [PDF], May 3, 2012
Douglas J. Besharov, Jitinder Kohli, and Kristina Costa
Defining Terms in a Social Impact Bond Agreement [PDF], May 2012
Douglas J. Besharov, Jitinder Kohli, and Kristina Costa
Social Impact Bonds and Government Contracting [PDF], May 2012
Douglas J. Besharov, Jitinder Kohli, and Kristina Costa
Fact Sheet: Social Impact Bonds-A Brief Introduction to a New Financing Tool for Social Programs [PDF], April 2012
Douglas J. Besharov, Jitinder Kohli, and Kristina Costa
Social Impact Bonds 101 [PDF], March 2012
Douglas J. Besharov, Jitinder Kohli and Kristina Costa
What Are Social Impact Bonds? [PDF], March 2012
Douglas J. Besharov, Jitinder Kohli, and Kristina Costa
'Pay-for-Success' Bonds Gain Adherents [PDF], February 2012
Douglas J. Besharov and Jitinder Kohli
Welfare States Amid Economic Turmoil: Adjusting Work-oriented Policy [PDF], Policy & Politics, 2011
Neil Gilbert and Douglas J. Besharov
The Global Budget Race [PDF], Autumn 2010
Douglas J. Besharov and Douglas M. Call
JPAM Classics: Poverty, Welfare, and Public Policy - Introduction [PDF], Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, October 8, 2009
Douglas J. Besharov and Douglas M. Call
Income Transfers Alone Won't Eradicate Poverty [PDF], The Policy Studies Journal, Vol. 37, No. 4, 2009
Douglas J. Besharov and Douglas M. Call
Lessons from the 2008-2009 Recession:
Response to Plotnick [PDF], The Policy Studies Journal, Vol. 37, No. 4, 2009
Douglas J. Besharov and Douglas M. Call
Presidential Address - From the Great Society to Continuous Improvement Government: Shifting From "Does It Work?"" to "What Would Make It Better?" [PDF], Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, Vol. 28, No. 2, March 2009
Douglas J. Besharov
The New
Kindergarten: The case for universal pre-kindergarten isn't as
strong as it seems [PDF], Wilson Quarterly (Fall
2008)
Douglas J. Besharov and Douglas M. Call
Forum:
Preschool Puzzle: As State after State Expands Pre-K
Schooling, Questions Remain [PDF], Education Next
8, no. 4 (Fall 2008)
Douglas J. Besharov and Craig Ramey
From the
Great Society to Continuous Improvement Government: The Hopes
of an Impatient Incrementalist [PDF], November 7, 2008
Douglas J. Besharov
Two Cheers for
American Welfare Reform -- Lessons Learned, Questions Raised,
Next Steps [PDF], Policy Exchange (2008)
Douglas J. Besharov
The New
Kindergarten: The case for universal pre-kindergarten isn't as
strong as it seems [PDF], Wilson Quarterly (Fall
2008)
Douglas J. Besharov and Douglas M. Call
Forum:
Preschool Puzzle: As State after State Expands Pre-K
Schooling, Questions Remain [PDF], Education Next
8, no. 4 (Fall 2008)
Douglas J. Besharov and Craig Ramey
Social
Welfare Conservatism, AEI On the Issues, January
2008
Douglas J. Besharov
Poverty Update: The
Long-Term Story behind the New Numbers [PDF], AEI On
the Issues, September 27, 2007
Douglas J. Besharov
Nonpoor
Children in Head Start: Explanations and Implications
[PDF], Journal of Policy Analysis and Management 26,
no. 3 (October 2007)
Douglas J. Besharov and Jeffrey S. Morrow
Federal
and State Child Care and Early Education Expenditures
(1997-2005): Child Care Spending Falls as Pre-K Spending Rises
[PDF], September 4, 2007
Douglas J. Besharov, Caeli A. Higney, and Justus A. Myers
Cost Per Child for
Early Childhood Education and Care: Comparing Head Start, CCDF
Child Care, and Prekindergarten/Preschool Programs (2003/2004)
[PDF], August 31, 2007
Douglas J. Besharov, Justus A. Myers, and Jeffrey S. Morrow
Giving
Head Start a Fresh Start [PDF], June 29, 2007
Douglas J. Besharov and Caeli A. Higney
Head
Start: Mend It, Don't Expand it [PDF], April 19, 2007
Douglas J. Besharov and Caeli A. Higney
Head
Start: Reply to Barnett and Currie [PDF], April 19, 2007
Douglas J. Besharov and Caeli A. Higney
Learning
from Abroad: A Center for the International Exchange of Policy
Information [PDF], January 2007
Douglas J. Besharov
Rethinking
Child Care Research, Evaluation Review 30, no. 5
(2006)
Douglas J. Besharov and Jeffrey S. Morrow, eds.
Beyond
the Safety Net: A Brief Review Forty Years after the War on
Poverty [PDF], November 3, 2006
Douglas J. Besharov
Two Cheers
for Welfare Reform, AEI On the Issues, August 2006
Douglas J. Besharov
Federal
and State Child Care Expenditures (1997-2004): Rapid Growth
Followed by Steady Spending [PDF], June 9, 2006
Douglas J. Besharov and Caeli A. Higney
Child Care
Data in the Survey of Income and Program Participation (SIPP):
Inaccuracies and Corrections [PDF], June 5, 2006
Douglas J. Besharov, Jeffrey S. Morrow, and Anne Fengyan Shi
The Role of Career and
Technical Education: Implications for Federal Policy
[PDF],
Marie Cohen and Douglas J. Besharov
Head Start's
Broken Promise [PDF], AEI On the Issues, October
2005
Douglas J. Besharov
Federal and
State Child Care Expenditures (1997-2003): Rapid Growth
Followed by Steady Spending [PDF], August 2005
Douglas J. Besharov and Caeli A. Higney
Full-Engagement Welfare in
New York City: Lessons for TANF's Participation Requirements
[PDF], August 2004
Douglas J. Besharov and Peter Germanis
Toughening TANF
[PDF], March 2004
Douglas J. Besharov and Peter Germanis
Family Well-Being After
Welfare Reform, June 2003
Douglas J. Besharov, Ed.
Creating a
Market Place for Social Welfare Services [PDF], December
12, 2003
Douglas J. Besharov
The Past and Future of
Welfare Reform, Public Interest, Winter 2003
Douglas J. Besharov
Leaving Welfare
Without Working: How do mothers do it? And what are the
implications? [PDF] February 2002
Douglas J. Besharov
Mandatory Work-Related
Activities for Welfare Recipients: The Next Step in Welfare
Reform [PDF], October 2001
Marie Cohen
Data Needs for Measuring Family
and Fertility Change After Welfare Reform, June 2001
Douglas J. Besharov, ed., William D. Mosher, Joyce C. Abma,
Stephanie J. Ventura, and Stanley K. Henshaw
Rethinking
WIC: An Evaluation of the Women, Infants, and Children Program,
January 2001
Douglas J. Besharov and Peter Germanis
Child
Care after Welfare Reform [PDF], 2001
Douglas J. Besharov and Nazanin Samari
Four Evaluations of Welfare Reform:
What Will Be Learned, 2001
Douglas J. Besharov and Peter Germanis, ed., Peter H. Rossi
Welfare Reform: Four Years Later,
Public Interest, Summer 2000
Douglas J. Besharov and Peter Germanis
Is WIC as good as they say?
Public Interest, Winter 1999
Douglas J. Besharov and Peter Germanis
Making
Food Stamps Part of Welfare Reform [PDF], Policy &
Practice, June 1999
Douglas J. Besharov and Peter Germanis
Debating WIC, Public
Interest, Spring 1999
Leighton Ku, Douglas J. Besharov, and Peter Germanis
Preventing
Youthful Disconnectedness [PDF], 1998
Douglas J. Besharov and Karen N. Gardiner
Feeding the Poor
(Book Summary), December 1998
Peter H. Rossi
Preventing Subsequent
Births to Welfare Mothers, February 1998
Douglas J. Besharov and Peter Germanis, ed.
Social Welfare's Twin
Dilemmas: "Universalism vs. Targeting" and "Support vs.
Dependency" [PDF], January 1998
Douglas J. Besharov
Evaluating Welfare Reform: A
Guide for Scholars and Practitioners, 1997 (PDF Version)
Douglas J. Besharov, Peter Germanis, and Peter H. Rossi
Good Parents
Not Money [PDF], The Public Interest, Fall 1997
Douglas J. Besharov and Mark H. Lopez
The
Politics of Child Abuse in America (book review), [PDF], American
Political Science Review, March 1997
Douglas J. Besharov and Jacob W. Dembosky
Don't Call It
Child Abuse If It's Really Poverty [PDF], Journal of
Children and Poverty, Win-Spr, 1997
Douglas J. Besharov and Lisa A. Laumann
Sex Education and
Abstinence: Programs, Research, and Evaluation, January 1,
1997
Douglas J. Besharov et al.
Health Related Welfare Rules
[PDF], November 1996
Douglas J. Besharov, Kristina Tanasichuk White, and Mark B.
Coggeshall
Welfare
Reform and Marriage [PDF], The Public Interest,
Fall 1996
Douglas J. Besharov and Timothy S. Sullivan
One Flash: America
Is Experiencing an Unprecedented Increase in Black-White
Intermarriage [PDF], The New Democrat, July/August
1996
Douglas J. Besharov and Timothy S. Sullivan
Poverty, Welfare
Dependency, and the Underclass [PDF], 1996
Douglas J. Besharov
The Children
of Crack: A Status Report [PDF], Public Welfare,
Winter 1996
Douglas J. Besharov
Using Work to
Reform Welfare [PDF], Public Welfare, Summer 1995
Douglas J. Besharov
On the Reform of
Welfare with Continued Dependency [PDF], Jobs &
Capital, Winter 1995
Douglas J. Besharov
Broken
Family Values (book review) [PDF], The Washington
Post, January 15, 1995
Douglas J. Besharov
The Moral Voice of Welfare
Reform [PDF], 1993
Douglas J. Besharov
A Moral Choice:
Would Norplant Simply Stop Unwanted Pregnancies -- or Increase
Destructive Teen Sex? [PDF], National Review,
August 9, 1993
Douglas J. Besharov
The Moral
Dimensions of Charity [PDF], Alternatives in
Philanthropy, May 1992
Douglas J. Besharov
Recognizing Child
Abuse: A Guide for the Concerned, October 1990
Douglas J. Besharov
Recognizing
Child Abuse: The Trainer's Manual, 1990
Douglas J. Besharov
Crack and
Kids [PDF], Society, July/August, 1990
Douglas J. Besharov
Gaining
Control over Child Abuse Reports: Public Agencies Must Address
Both Underreporting and Overreporting [PDF], Public
Welfare, Spring, 1990
Douglas J. Besharov
The Children
of Crack: Will We Protect Them? [PDF], Public Welfare,
Fall, 1989
Douglas J. Besharov
Not All Female-Headed
Families Are Created Equal [PDF], May 1987
Douglas J. Besharov and Alison J. Quin
Child Abuse:
Arrest and Prosecution Decision-Making [PDF], American
Criminal Law Review, Fall, 1986
Douglas J. Besharov
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Op-Eds
- The Right
Kind of Hand Up [PDF], The Washington Post,
November 19, 2007
- Douglas J. Besharov
- The Rio
Grande Rises [PDF], The New York Times, October 1,
2007
- Douglas J. Besharov
- Two Cheers
for Welfare Reform, AEI On the Issues, August 2006
- Douglas J. Besharov
- End Welfare
Lite as We Know It, New York Times, August 15,
2006
- Douglas J. Besharov
- Poor America, Wall
Street Journal, March 24, 2006
- Douglas J. Besharov
- Head Start's
Broken Promise, AEI On the Issues, October 2005
- Douglas J. Besharov
- Broken
Yardstick [PDF], The New York Times, September 9,
2005
- Nicholas Eberstadt
- There's More
Welfare to Reform, The New York Times, March 6,
2004
- Douglas J. Besharov
- We're Feeding
the Poor as If They're Starving, The Washington Post,
December 8, 2002, p. B1.
- Douglas J. Besharov
- Welfare
Rolls: On the Rise Again, The Washington Post,
July 16, 2002
- Douglas J. Besharov
- The New Retirement:
Getting Old Ain't What It Used to Be, The Washington
Post, August 1, 1999
- Douglas J. Besharov and Keith W. Smith
- Asking More From
Matrimony, The New York Times, July 14, 1999
- Douglas J. Besharov
- The Other
Wisconsin Miracle: How Wisconsin foundations are helping
create a responsive market for child care [PDF], Philanthrophy
Magazine, May/June 1999
- Douglas J. Besharov and Nazanin Samari
- Hard to Swallow: The
Scandal in the School Lunch Program Isn't About Pizza, The
Washington Post, March 28, 1999
- Douglas J. Besharov
- Beware The Real Agenda,
The New York Times, August 5, 1997
- Douglas J. Besharov
- Clinton
Undermines Welfare Reform--With GOP Help [PDF], The
Wall Street Journal, July 10, 1997
- Douglas J. Besharov
- Tightening the Welfare Noose,
The New York Times, January 15, 1997
- Douglas J. Besharov
- Children Deserve
Chance to Live; The System Won't Accept the Uncomfortable
Truth: Some Parents Are Beyond the Help of Treatment Programs,
The Orlando Sentinel, December 22, 1996
- Douglas J. Besharov
- When Home is Hell:
We Are Too Reluctant to Take Children From Bad Parents, The
Washington Post, December 1, 1996
- Douglas J. Besharov
- How to Help Welfare Mothers,
The New York Times, November 13, 1996
- Douglas J. Besharov
- Inner City Blues, The
Washington Post, October 13, 1996
- Douglas J. Besharov
- Child Abuse: Threat
or Menace?, Slate, October 3, 1996
- Douglas J. Besharov and Jacob W. Dembosky
- Shaping the Debate on
Welfare Reform, The Washington Post, August 11,
1996
- Douglas J. Besharov
- A Look at
Integration: The Interracial Generation: From Mixed Marriages,
the Offspring of Hope [PDF], The Washington Post,
July 21, 1996
- Douglas J. Besharov
- Waivers Change the
Face of Welfare [PDF], The Los Angeles Times, June
20, 1996
- Douglas J. Besharov
- Ignoring the Danger
Signs of Child Abuse, Newsday, April 21, 1996
- Douglas J. Besharov
- Welfare: An
Albatross for Young Mothers [PDF], The Wall Street
Journal, February 28, 1996
- Douglas J. Besharov
- First Lady Knows
Best, The Washington Post, January 28, 1996
- Douglas J. Besharov
- How To Save Children,
The New York Times, January 13, 1996
- Douglas J. Besharov
- What about the
Poor: the Hope of a New Approach [PDF], The Washington
Post, December 3, 1995
- Douglas J. Besharov
- A Monster of His Own
Creation, The Washington Post, Novemer 2, 1995
- Douglas J. Besharov
- Don't Expect Miracles;
But a Few Rules Would Go a Long Way Toward Fixing the Welfare
Mess, The Washington Post, July 23, 1995
- Douglas J. Besharov
- The Welfare Balloon: Squeeze
Hard on One Side and the Other Side Will Just Expand, The
Washington Post, June 11, 1995
- Douglas J. Besharov
- The
Contraceptive Gap: Millions for Cosmetics, Pennies for Better
Birth Control [PDF], The Washington Post, March
12, 1995
- Douglas J. Besharov
- Orphanages Aren't
Real Issue [PDF], The Plano Star Courier, January
29, 1995
- Douglas J. Besharov
- Trapped in the
Day-Care Maze [PDF], The Washington Post, December
11, 1994
- Douglas J. Besharov
- Do We Have to Give Up?: No.
We Know How to Get Smart About IQ, The Washington
Post, October 23, 1994
- Douglas J. Besharov
- The Tightrope
of Abuse Reporting [PDF], The Times Educational
Supplement, June 3, 1994
- Douglas J. Besharov
- Life Is Not Just a Bowl of
Condoms, The Washington Post, May 1, 1994
- Douglas J. Besharov
- Orphanages Aren't
Welfare Reform [PDF], The New York Times, January
20, 1994
- Douglas J. Besharov
- Escaping
the Dole: For Young Unwed Mothers, Welfare Reform Alone Can't
Make Work Pay [PDF], The Washington Post, December
12, 1993
- Douglas J. Besharov
- The Veto
Option: Will Bill Get Bushwhacked on the Budget? [PDF] The
Washington Post, October 3, 1993
- Douglas J. Besharov
- Pricing Health Care:
Biggest "Sponger" of Health Care? Government Itself [PDF],
The Wall Street Journal, September 22, 1993
- Douglas J. Besharov
- Welfare As We Don't Know It,
The Washington Post, July 4, 1993
- Douglas J. Besharov
- Fresh Start:
What Works in Head Start? [PDF] The New Republic,
June 14, 1993
- Douglas J. Besharov
- It's
Time for Common Sense on Using Norplant [PDF], The
Philadelphia Inquirer, May 23, 1993
- Douglas J. Besharov
- Teen Sex: Truth and
Consequences, The Orlando Sentinel, February 21,
1993
- Douglas J. Besharov and Karen N. Gardiner
- The Perverse Federal
Incentive for Welfare Cuts, Governing, February
1993
- Douglas J. Besharov and Karen Baehler
- That Other
Clinton Promise -- Ending "Welfare as We Know It" [PDF], The
Wall Street Journal, January 18, 1993
- Douglas J. Besharov
- A Good
Beginning [PDF], The Washington Post, November 1,
1992
- Douglas J. Besharov
- Beyond Murphy Brown: We're
Ignorning the Fact that All Single Mothers Aren't Alike, The
Washington Post, September 27, 1992
- Douglas J. Besharov
- Improving child protective
services: how to expand and implement the consensus, Children
Today, March 1992
- Douglas J. Besharov
- Why
Head Start Needs a Re-start: Poverty, Violence Threaten the
Gains [PDF], The Washington Post, February 2, 1992
- Douglas J. Besharov
- New Directions
for Head Start [PDF], The World & I, January
1992
- Douglas J. Besharov
- Cautions for the New
Paternalism, The Washington Post, January 5, 1992
- Douglas J. Besharov
- Unemployment
Issues Go Beyond Race [PDF], The New York Times,
December 14, 1991
- Douglas J. Besharov
- Operation
Domestic Storm: Military Strategies for the Domestic Front
[PDF], Virginia Town and City, June 1991
- Douglas J. Besharov
- Whose Life Is It
Anyway?: Pregnant Crack Users Act as Child Abusers, The
National Law Journal, March 4, 1991
- Douglas J. Besharov
- Lessons from the
McMartin Case, The Christian Science Monitor,
February 9, 1990
- Douglas J. Besharov
- The Tragedy of
Child Abuse: We all share the blame for the death of Bradley
McGee, The St. Petersburg Times, September 3, 1989
- Douglas J. Besharov
- Let's Give Crack
Babies a Way Out Of Addict Families, Newsday,
September 3, 1989
- Douglas J. Besharov
- Get the
Message Out: Crack and Pregnancy Don't Mix [PDF], The
Philadelphia Inquirer, August 20, 1989
- Douglas J. Besharov
- Crack Babies: The
Worst Threat is Mom Herself, The Washington Post,
August 6, 1989
- Douglas J. Besharov
- Child Care Credit is
Test of Bush's "Kindness", The Los Angeles Times,
November 11, 1988
- Douglas J. Besharov and Paul N. Tramontozzi
- The Politics of
Day-Care: We're About to Spend Billions on a Dubious Middle
Class "Crisis", The Washington Post, August 6,
1988
- Douglas J. Besharov
- Child Care
Subsidies: Mostly for the Middle Class, The Washington
Post, May 2, 1988
- Douglas J. Besharov and Paul N. Tramontozzi
- The ABCs of
Child-Care Politics [PDF], The Wall Street Journal,
March 9, 1988
- Douglas J. Besharov
- Make It a Crime to
Spread AIDS: Counseling Isn't Enough for Reckless or
Deliberate Infectors [PDF], The Washington Post,
October 18, 1987
- Douglas J. Besharov
- Unwed Moms Are
White, Too: Once Again the Conventional Wisdom Has It Wrong
[PDF], The Washington Post, May 3, 1987
- Douglas J. Besharov
- One Policy for
Working Moms Won't Fit All [PDF], The Wall Street
Journal, October 29, 1986
- Douglas J. Besharov
- Go Slow on Welfare
Reform [PDF], The Wall Street Journal, March 18,
1987
- Douglas J. Besharov
- Put Politics Aside
and Help the "Head Start" Program, The New York Times,
December 28, 1985
- Douglas J. Besharov and Terry W. Hartle
- Return the Family to
1954 [PDF], The Wall Street Journal, July 8, 1985
- Douglas J. Besharov
- Overreach
of the Guardian State [PDF], The Wall Street Journal,
April 2, 1984
- Douglas J. Besharov
- To
Protect the Abused [PDF], The New York Times,
April 2, 1980
- Douglas J. Besharov
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Conference Papers
Measuring Poverty after Katrina,
American Enterprise Institute Press Briefing, August 28, 2006
- Measuring
Poverty after Katrina
- Douglas J. Besharov
- Material
Deprivation in Modern America: Looking beyond the "Poverty
Rate"
- Nicholas Eberstadt
Welfare Reform Two
Years Later, July 30, 1998
- Welfare
Reform: Two Years Later (Notes)
- Douglas J. Besharov
- Remarks.
- Lawrence Mead
Pregnancy Prevention and
Welfare Reform, June 5, 1998
- Opening Remarks
- Douglas J. Besharov
- Parents and Teens on
Love, Sex, and Relationships: Research, Parents Tips, and
Polling Data [PDF]
- Sarah Brown
- Repeat Pregnancy for
Those Not Pregnant at Program Entry
- Marva Hammons
- Is There a Link Between
Welfare Reform and Teen Pregnancy?
- Richard Nathan
- Understanding the Rise
in Illegitimacy (Slides.
Tables.)
- Robert Rector
Teenage Sexuality and
Contraceptive Use, May 1, 1998
- Teenage Sexual Behavior
and Contraceptive Use: An Update. (PDF Version. Slides.)
- Joyce Abma and Freya Sonenstein
- Trends in Teen
Sexual Behavior: Are They Real?.
- Christine Bachrach
- Trends in Teen Sexual
Behavior [PDF]
- Douglas J. Besharov and Karen Gardiner
- Teens in Crisis: A
Comprehensive Strategy to Protect Adolescent Health
[PDF], (Slides)
- Kate Michelman
- Teenage Sexuality and
Contraceptive Use: An Update
- Tom Smith
- Possible Explanations for
Changes in Teenage Sexual Behavior [PDF]
- Pat Funderburk Ware
Child Care and
Welfare Reform, April 3, 1998
- Child Care
Falling Short for Low-Income and Working Families. (Talking Points)
- Helen Blank
- Child Care
and Welfare Reform.
- The Hon. Larry E. Craig
- Managed Day
Care Makes Its Debut
-
- Head Start and
Welfare Reform [PDF]
- Wade F. Horn
- Spending on
Early Childhood Care Programs and Research: An Analysis of
Federal Departments, State Governments, and Foundations
[PDF]
- Pamela Jones, Christine Ross, and Stuart Kerachsky
- State Efforts
to Expand Child Care Programs (GAO Report -
PDF. Slides.)
- Mark Nadel
- Child Care and Welfare
Reform: The Wisconsin Experience. (Remarks.
PDF Slides: 1-3,
4, 5, 6.)
- John Weicher
Preventing Second Births
to Teenage Mothers: Demonstration Findings, March 6,
1998
- The Role of Psychological
Factors
- Marilyn Benoit
- Opening Remarks (PDF Slides)
- Douglas J. Besharov
- Can Intervention
Programs Prevent Subsequent Births to Teenage Mothers?
- Lorraine Klerman
- Research on Teen Parent
Programs [PDF]
- Rebecca Maynard
- Repeat Teen Births
(PDF Slides)
- Kristin Moore
- Prenatal and
Infancy Home Visitation by Nurses: A Program of Research
(Slides.)
- David Olds
Welfare Reform: What
Happens After Time Limits, Sanctions, and Diversions?,
February 6, 1998
- Time Limiting Welfare:
Lessons from the States
- Judith Gueron
- The New Welfare:
Diversions, Sanctions, Time Limits
- Lawrence M. Mead
- Keynote Remarks
- The Hon. Donna Shalala
- Florida's Work and Gain
Economic Self-Sufficiency (WAGES) Program [PDF]
- Don Winstead
Abstinence Education Grants
and Welfare Reform, June 6, 1997
- Trends in Sexual Activity
and Abstinence Among U.S. Men and Women (PDF Slides)
- Christine Bachrach
- Abstinence Education
Grants Under Welfare Reform
- David Bellis
- Making Abstinence Work
- Elayne Bennett
- Using Abstinence Funding
(Survey Appendix)
- Sarah Brown
- What Do We Know About
Abstinence Programs?
- Barbara Devaney
- Abstinence Education
Under Welfare Reform (Appendix A Appendix B Table 1)
- Ron Haskins and Carol Statuto Bevan
- Abstinence Education
Grants
- Jodie Levin-Epstein
- Programs and Approaches
- Pat Funderburk Ware
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Reconsidering the Federal Poverty
Measure Seminar
Seminar 1: A Mismatch Between the
Official Poverty Count and Other Social Welfare Indicators?
July 20, 2004
- Reconsidering
the Federal Poverty Measure [PDF]
- Douglas J. Besharov and Peter Germanis
- Poverty
Measure Seminar Summary, Session 1 [PDF]
- Douglas J. Besharov and Gordon Green, with John Iceland
Seminar 2: Measuring the Material
Well-Being of Poor Children, September 14, 2004
- Can We Fix the
Federal Poverty Measure So It Provides Reliable
Information about Changes in Children's Living Conditions?
[PDF]
- Christopher Jencks, Susan E. Mayer, and Joseph Swingle
- Poverty
Measure Seminar Summary, Session 2 [PDF]
- Douglas J. Besharov and Gordon Green
Seminar 3: Poverty by Definition
of Income, October 12, 2004
- Towards Decisions
on a Pre-transfer Poverty Measure [PDF]
- Charles Murray
- Income Data
Quality Issues in the Annual Social and Economic
Supplement to the Current Population Survey [PDF]
- Daniel H. Weinberg
- Reductions in Poverty
in the 1990s Significantly Greater Than Official Estimates
Suggest [PDF]
- Joint Economic Committee Democrats, Economic Policy Brief
- Poverty
Measure Seminar Summary, Session 3 [PDF]
- Douglas J. Besharov and Gordon Green
Seminar 4: Consumer Expenditures,
Consumption, and Poverty Measurement, November
18, 2004
- Measuring Consumption and
Consumption Poverty: Possibilities and Issues [PDF]
- David S. Johnson
- The Household
Arrangements of Hispanics [PDF]
- Roberto Suro
- Poverty
Measure Seminar Summary, Session 4 [PDF]
- Douglas J. Besharov and Gordon Green
Seminar 5: The Poverty Thresholds:
What Additional Forms of Income Can Be Counted Using the
Current Thresholds? And, Under What Conditions Should the
Thresholds Be Changed? January 11, 2005
- Measuring Poverty:
Income Thresholds and Resource Measures [PDF]
- Timothy Smeeding
- Measuring Poverty: What
Should be Counted Where? [PDF]
- Patricia Ruggles
- Misclassification in an
experimental poverty measure [PDF]
- Richard Bavier
- Poverty
Measure Seminar Summary, Session 5 [PDF]
- Douglas J. Besharov and Gordon Green
Seminar 6: Indicators of
Deprivation and Well-Being in Modern America,
March 8, 2005
- Indicators of
Deprivation and Well-Being in Modern America [Power
Point]
- Nicholas Eberstadt
- Poverty and Health [Power
Point]
- Jennifer Madans, Kimberly Lochner, and Diane Makuc
- Poverty
Measure Seminar Summary, Session 6 [PDF]
- Douglas J. Besharov and Gordon Green
Seminar 7: Alternative Measures of
Income Poverty and the Anti-Poverty Effects of Taxes and
Transfers, May 10, 2005
- Tonight's Discussion
[Power Point]
- Douglas J. Besharov
- Alternative Measures of
Income Poverty and the Anti-poverty Effects of Taxes and
Transfers (presentation) [Power Point]
- Daniel H. Weinberg
- Alternative
Measures of Income Poverty and the Anti-poverty Effects of
Taxes and Transfers [PDF]
- Daniel H. Weinberg
- Supplemental
Tables - Part 1
- Part 2
[PDF]
- Retooling the Poverty
Measure [PDF]
- Robert D. Reischauer
- Poverty
Measure Seminar Summary, Session 7 [PDF]
- Douglas J. Besharov and Gordon Green
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Testimony
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Testimony on Labor Activation European Practices, House Committee on Ways and Means, Subcommittee on Human Resources, November 17, 2015 [PDF]
- Douglas J. Besharov
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Testimony on SNAP, House Committee on Agriculture, February 25, 2015 [PDF]
- Douglas J. Besharov
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Testimony on the War on Poverty, U.S. Congress, House Committee on The Budget, July 31, 2013 [PDF]
- Douglas J. Besharov
- Testimony
on Labor Activation in the OECD, U.S. Congress, House
Committee on Ways and Means, Subcommittee on Human Resources,
February 28, 2013 [PDF]
- Douglas J. Besharov
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Testimony on SSI Financial Requirements , U.S. Congress, House Committee on Ways and Means, Subcommittee on Ways and Means, July 25, 2012 [PDF]
- Douglas J. Besharov
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Testimony on TANF, House Committee on Ways and Means, Subcommittee on Human Resources, September 8, 2011 [PDF]
- Douglas J. Besharov
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Testimony of Douglas J. Besharov before the Subcommittee on Labor, Health & Human Services, Education, and Related Agencies, April 7, 2011 [PDF]
- Douglas J. Besharov
- Testimony
on Measuring Poverty in America, U.S. Congress, House
Committee on Ways and Means, Subcommittee on Income Security
and Family Support, August 1, 2007 [PDF]
- Douglas J. Besharov
- Testimony
on Early Care and Education, Joint Economic Committee,
U.S. Congress, June 27, 2007 [PDF]
- Douglas J. Besharov
- Testimony
on The Economic Stagnation of the Black Middle Class,
U.S. Commission on Civil Rights, July 15, 2005 [PDF]
- Douglas J. Besharov
- Testimony on Expanding the
African-American Middle Class: Improving Labor Market
Outcomes, U.S. Commission on Civil Rights, July 15, 2005
[PDF]
- Harry J. Holzer
- Testimony on Growing
Overweight and Obesity in America: The Potential Role of
Federal Nutrition Programs, Senate Committee on
Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry, April 3, 2003 [PDF]
- Douglas J. Besharov
- Testimony on State
Implementation of Work Requirements Under Welfare Reform,
House Committee on Ways and Means, Subcommittee on Human
Resources, March 7, 2002 [PDF]
- Douglas J. Besharov
- Testimony on
Federal Child Care Funding, House Committee on Education
and the Workforce, Subcommittee on 21st Century
Competitiveness, February 27, 2002 [PDF]
- Douglas J. Besharov
- Testimony on
Early Childhood Programs and Their Impacts on Low-income
Children and Families, Senate Committee on Health,
Education, Labor and Pensions, Subcommittee on Children and
Families, April 11, 2000 [PDF]
- Douglas J. Besharov
- Testimony on the Effects
of Welfare Reform, House Committee on Ways and Means,
Subcommittee on Human Resources, May 27, 1999
- Douglas J. Besharov
- Testimony on Unmarried
Mothers and Welfare Reform, Senate Committee on Finance,
March 14, 1995
- Douglas J. Besharov
- Testimony on the
Federal Child Care Programs, Senate Committee on Labor
and Human Resources, Children and Families Subcommittee,
February 16, 1995
- Douglas J. Besharov
- Testimony on the Future
of Family Programs, House Committee on Ways and Means,
January 17, 1995
- Douglas J. Besharov
- Testimony on the
Future of Family Programs, House Committee on Ways and
Means, January 17, 1995
- Douglas J. Besharov
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