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An Evaluation Use Framework and Empirical Assessment (with Lindsey Gorzalski), Journal of MultiDisciplinary Evaluation (2009)
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Background. Research on evaluation use focuses on putting evaluation recommendations into practice. Prior...
Giving and Getting: Charitable Activity and Welfare Receipt (with Chao Guo), Administration & Society (2009)
This study assesses the extent to which welfare recipients engage in giving money and time...
How Do Low-Skill Workers Fare in High Growth Areas? Job Accessibility in Phoenix, 1995-2000 (with John David Godchaux), Journal of Poverty (2009)
Lack of jobs has been blamed as an important cause of poverty. Scarce research on...
Do Anti-Poverty Nonprofits Locate Where People Need Them? Evidence from a Spatial Analysis of Phoenix, Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly (2008)
This work explores the spatial connections between nonprofit organizations that have an anti-poverty focus and...
How Poverty and Segregation Impact Child Development: Evidence from the Chicago Longitudinal Study (with Michael D. Niles), Journal of Poverty (2008)
Living in poor and segregated neighborhoods has detrimental effects on children’s life chances. In an...
The Latent and Sequential Costs (and Benefits) of Being Low Income: New Insights About Employment for Poverty Measurement (with Elizabeth A. Segal), Journal of Policy Practice (2008)
This article explores the added costs of being low-income that derive from people’s employment in...
Comparison Group Identification for Difficult-to-Evaluate Populations (with Donald E. Friesner), Journal of MultiDisciplinary Evaluation (2007)
The evaluation literature on Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer (LGBTQ) youth programs is largely...
Stereotypes and Statistics: An Essay on Public Opinion and Poverty Measurement, Journal of Poverty (2007)
Both the public perception of poverty and the measurement of poverty intersect in ways in...
What are the Effects of Welfare Sanction Policies? Or, Using Propensity Scores as a Subgroup Indicator to Learn More from Social Experiments, American Journal of Evaluation (2007)
This article uses propensity scores to identify subgroups of individuals most likely to experience a...
The Latent and Sequential Costs of Being Poor: Exploration of a Potential Paradigm Shift (with Elizabeth A. Segal), Journal of Poverty (2006)
This paper proposes a new framework for describing well-being and hardship among low-income families. We...
The Sequential Costs of Poverty: What Traditional Measures Overlook (with Elizabeth A. Segal), Journal of Sociology and Social Welfare (2006)
This article proposes a new framework for describing well-being and hardship among low-income families. We...
Can Welfare Case Management Increase Employment? Evidence from a Pilot Program Evaluation (with Ronald J. Scott), Policy Studies Journal (2005)
Welfare reform has increased the importance of employment over simple eligibility determination. Research has focused...
Using Cluster Analysis in Program Evaluation, Evaluation Review (2005)
The conventional way to measure program impacts is to compute the average treatment effect; that...
Subgroup Analysis in Social Experiments: Measuring Program Impacts Based on Post Treatment Choice, American Journal of Evaluation (2003)
A fundamental question within the field of program evaluation is “Do social programs work?” Although...
More? Less? Or More of the Same? Trends in State Level Social Policy in the 1990s (with Marcia K. Meyers and Janet C. Gornick), Publius: The Journal of Federalism (2002)
Major reforms to cash assistance and other welfare programs in the 1990s raise questions about...
Packaging Support for Low Income Families: Policy Variation Across the U.S. States (with Marcia K. Meyers and Janet C. Gornick), Journal of Policy Analysis and Management (2001)
This paper addresses a gap in state-level comparative social policy research by analyzing policies that...