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Item Information   Holdings     Summary     More Content       More by this author     Schuck, Peter H.     Subjects     Public welfare administration -- United States.     Human services -- Government policy -- United States.     United States -- Social policy -- 1993-     Browse Catalog     by author:      Schuck, Peter H.       by title:      Targeting in social ...         MARC Display

Targeting in social programs : avoiding bad bets, removing bad apples / Peter H. Schuck, Richard J. Zeckhauser. by Schuck, Peter H. Washington, D.C. : Brookings Institution Press, c2006. Subjects Public welfare administration -- United States.   Human services -- Government policy -- United States.   United States -- Social policy -- 1993- ISBN:  0815704283 9780815704287 (pbk.) : Description:  x, 170 p. : ill. ; 23 cm. 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. Requests:  0 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.   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Status   Hawaii State Library Social Science & Philosophy 361.61209 Sc Checked In Add Copy to MyList

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