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Targeting in social programs : avoiding bad bets, removing bad apples / Peter H. Schuck, Richard J. Zeckhauser.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Schuck, Peter H.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Public welfare administration--United States.
- Public welfare administration.
- Human services--Government policy--United States.
- Human services.
- United States--Social policy--1993-.
- United States.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (183 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Washington, D.C. : Brookings Institution Press, c2006.
- Language Note:
- English
- 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.
- 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.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Description based on print version record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 137-161) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9786610765737
- 9781280765735
- 1280765739
- 9780815778790
- 0815778791
- OCLC:
- 437176667
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