Targeting in social programs [electronic resource] : avoiding bad bets, removing bad apples / Peter H. Schuck, Richard J. Zeckhauser.
By: Schuck, Peter H.
Contributor(s): Zeckhauser, Richard | ebrary, Inc
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Publisher: Washington, D.C. : Brookings Institution Press, c2006Description: x, 170 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.Subject(s): Public welfare administration -- United States | Human services -- Government policy -- United States | United States -- Social policy -- 1993-Genre/Form: Electronic books.DDC classification: 361.6/120973 Online resources: An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view Summary: "Provides a framework for analyzing the challenges involved in defining bad bets and bad apples and discusses the safeguards that any classification process must provide. Examines public schools, public housing, and medical care and proposes policy changes that could reduce the problems these two groups pose in social welfare programs"--Provided by publisher.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 137-161) and index.
"Provides a framework for analyzing the challenges involved in defining bad bets and bad apples and discusses the safeguards that any classification process must provide. Examines public schools, public housing, and medical care and proposes policy changes that could reduce the problems these two groups pose in social welfare programs"--Provided by publisher.
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Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2009. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.