Missouri Welfare Reform Results Study

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Evaluator(s) Missouri Department of Social Services
Midwest Research Institute
Investigator(s) Richard Koon (Missouri Department of Social Services)
 
Domain Income Security/TANF
Status Operational with Findings
Duration Mar 1999 - Mar 2001
Type Research and/or Program Evaluation
Program/Policy Description This project will study the status and characteristics of persons who have left the TANF program. The project is based on two administrative databases: a comprehensive statewide collection of administrative data from health and human services programs, employment and training programs and wage records maintained by the University of Missouri, and a database of non-profit emergency assistance (homeless, food bank, etc.) in metropolitan Kansas City created by the Mid-America Assistance Council, a consortium of non-profit agencies using shared forms and intake procedures. These existing databases will be linked to each other and to a two-cohort survey of TANF leavers by the Midwest Research Institute.
Notes Definition of leavers: 1 month closures.

This project is an ASPE-funded "Leavers" study.

 
Last Updated 00/00/00
Type of Summary Unreviewed
Contact(s) Richard Koon (rkoon01@mail.state.mo.us)
Missouri Department of Social Services
221 West High Street
(T) (573) 751-3060
(F) (573) 526-3574
Submitter(s) Richard Koon (rkoon01@mail.state.mo.us)
Missouri Department of Social Services
221 West High Street
(T) (573) 751-3060
(F) (573) 526-3574

Populations Studied

Target Population Former recipients ("leavers")
Subgroups Analyzed Single parent families
Sample Size and Unit Cohort 1: Welfare leavers Q4 1996 (administrative data) Survey of 1200 stratified by KC, St. Louis, balance of state, and whether returned to welfare or not - Fall 1998

Cohort 2: Welfare leavers Q4 1997 (administrative data) Survey of 1200 stratified by KC, St. Louis, balance of state, and whether returned to welfare or not - Fall 1999

Execution Not yet available.

Sites Studied

Missouri- statewide