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Author:

Schuck, Peter H.

Title:

Targeting in social programs : avoiding bad bets, removing bad apples / Peter H. Schuck, Richard J. Zeckhauser.

Publisher:

Brookings Institution Press,

Copyright Date:

c2006

Description:

x, 170 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Subject:

Public welfare administration--United States.
Human services--Government policy--United States.
United States--Social policy--1993-

Other Authors:

Zeckhauser, Richard.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. 137-161) and index.

Contents:

Introduction -- Conceptual foundations of target efficiency -- High stakes, misguided evasions, and bad policies -- Avoiding bad bets -- Removing bad apples -- Predictive accuracy and procedural protection -- Better information, better targeting, and better policies.

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.

ISBN:

0815778805
9780815778806
9780815778806 (cloth : alk. paper)
0815778805 (cloth : alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)71244021

LCCN:

2006029184

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

UNUX074 -- University of Northern Iowa - Rod Library (Cedar Falls)

N3AX771 -- Drake Law School Library (Des Moines)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

N5UX522 -- University of Iowa Law Library (Iowa City)