Four Welfare Employment Studies, Arkansas, Virginia, Baltimore, Maryland, and San Diego, California, 1982-1985 (ICPSR 38059)

Version Date: Jul 21, 2022

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Principal Investigator(s):
Daniel Friedlander, MDRC; Phillip K. Robins, MDRC; MDRC

Series:

https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR38059.v1

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Summary

This collection contains two- to three-year Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC) and earnings follow-up data, which are based on unemployment insurance records. These data are available from four of MDRC's welfare employment studies conducted in the 1980s in the following locations: Arkansas, Virginia, Maryland (Baltimore), and San Diego SWIM. In addition to these follow-up data, demographic information is provided for each sample member. These data were used in a paper assessing nonexperimental techniques for estimating the effects of employment and training programs. Note that the files included in this package do not include data on Cook County, Illinois, which is found in the report "Subgroup Impacts and Performance Indicators for Selected Welfare Employment Programs".

Citation

Friedlander, Daniel, Robins, Phillip K., and MDRC. Four Welfare Employment Studies, Arkansas, Virginia, Baltimore, Maryland, and San Diego, California, 1982-1985. Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2022-07-21. https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR38059.v1

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Funding

United States Department of Health and Human Services. Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation, United States Department of Health and Human Services, United States. National Commission for Employment Policy

Subject Terms

Geographic Coverage

Restrictions

This data collection may not be used for any purpose other than statistical reporting and analysis. Use of these data to learn the identity of any person or establishment is prohibited. To protect respondent privacy, this data collection is restricted from general dissemination. To obtain these restricted files, researchers must agree to the terms and conditions of a Restricted Data Use Agreement in accordance with existing ICPSR servicing policies.

Distributor(s)

Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research
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Time Period(s)

1982 -- 1985

Date of Collection

1982 -- 1985

Data Collection Notes

  1. Note that the files included in this package do not include data on Cook County, Illinois, which is found in the report "Subgroup Impacts and Performance Indicators for Selected Welfare Employment Programs".
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Sample

All four evaluations used research designs in which eligible applicants and recipients were randomly assigned to experimental groups, which could receive the special program services, or to control groups, which could not. These programs required the participation of portions of the Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC) caseload which were mandatory under federal Work Incentive (WIN) Program regulations (i.e., primarily women whose youngest child is six years or older.)

For additional details on sample sizes in each geographic unit, please refer to the documentation.

Universe

Welfare recipients

Unit(s) of Observation

Individual

Data Type(s)

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Original Release Date

2022-07-21

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Notes