Schuck, Peter H.

Targeting in social programs avoiding bad bets, removing bad apples / [electronic resource] : Peter H. Schuck, Richard J. Zeckhauser. - Washington, D.C. : Brookings Institution Press, c2006. - x, 170 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

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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Palo Alto, Calif. :
ebrary,
2009.
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Public welfare administration--United States.
Human services--Government policy--United States.


United States--Social policy--1993-


Electronic books.

HV95 / .S38 2006eb

361.6/120973