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Privileging the participant: The importance of sub-group analysis in social welfare evaluations

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Gibson, CM
Published in: American Journal of Evaluation
December 9, 2003

This paper analyzes how variation in participant take-up rates affected the impacts of the New Hope project, a random-assignment, anti-poverty program. New Hope offered experimental members four benefits-child care subsidies, wage subsidies, health insurance, and, if needed, a temporary community service job-that were available to families working full time. Take-up of the benefits was far from universal and experimental participants who used one of the benefits rarely used all of them. Clustering and propensity score methods are used to analyze take-up sub-groups and to estimate program impacts within each. The majority of take-up patterns adopted by experimental members were associated with at least one positive program impact. However, the primary beneficiaries were those parents who used the community service jobs. They increased their employment effort, felt less parenting stress, and had children with higher teacher-related academic accomplishment scores. The implication of this method for the evaluation of other multi-benefit programs is discussed.

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American Journal of Evaluation

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1098-2140

Publication Date

December 9, 2003

Volume

24

Issue

4

Start / End Page

443 / 469

Related Subject Headings

  • Social Sciences Methods
  • 4404 Development studies
  • 3507 Strategy, management and organisational behaviour
  • 1503 Business and Management
 

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Gibson, C. M. (2003). Privileging the participant: The importance of sub-group analysis in social welfare evaluations. American Journal of Evaluation, 24(4), 443–469. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ameval.2003.09.002
Gibson, C. M. “Privileging the participant: The importance of sub-group analysis in social welfare evaluations.” American Journal of Evaluation 24, no. 4 (December 9, 2003): 443–69. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ameval.2003.09.002.
Gibson CM. Privileging the participant: The importance of sub-group analysis in social welfare evaluations. American Journal of Evaluation. 2003 Dec 9;24(4):443–69.
Gibson, C. M. “Privileging the participant: The importance of sub-group analysis in social welfare evaluations.” American Journal of Evaluation, vol. 24, no. 4, Dec. 2003, pp. 443–69. Scopus, doi:10.1016/j.ameval.2003.09.002.
Gibson CM. Privileging the participant: The importance of sub-group analysis in social welfare evaluations. American Journal of Evaluation. 2003 Dec 9;24(4):443–469.
Journal cover image

Published In

American Journal of Evaluation

DOI

ISSN

1098-2140

Publication Date

December 9, 2003

Volume

24

Issue

4

Start / End Page

443 / 469

Related Subject Headings

  • Social Sciences Methods
  • 4404 Development studies
  • 3507 Strategy, management and organisational behaviour
  • 1503 Business and Management