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Welfare Reform in California: Design of the Impact Analysis
Jacob Alex Klerman, V. Joseph Hotz, Guido W. Imbens, Paul S. Steinberg, Elaine Reardon
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Abstract
In response to national welfare reform legislation--the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act (PRWORA), which was signed in August 1996--California passed legislation on August 11, 1997, that replaced the existing Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC) and Greater Avenues to Independence (GAIN) programs with the California Work Opportunity and Responsibility to Kids (CalWORKs) program. Following an open and competitive bidding process, the California Department of Social Services (CDSS), which administers CalWORKs, awarded a contract to RAND to conduct a statewide evaluation of the CaiWORKs program. That evaluation included both a process analysis examining how CalWORKs is being implemented and an impact analysis examining its costs and benefits. This report presents an overview of RAND's plan for conducting the impact analysis component of the CalWORKs evaluation as of September 1999. Another document, MR-1266.0/l-CDSS, Welfare Reform in California: Design of the Impact Analysis: Preliminary Investigations of Caseload Data, Steven Haider, Jacob Alex Klerman, Jan M. Hanley, Laurie McDonald, Elizabeth Roth, Liisa Hiatt, and Marika Suttorp, discusses preliminary results and planned future analyses of caseload data.