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	Minnesota’s Family Investment Program (MFIP) Evaluation

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Evaluator(s)	MDRC
Investigator(s)	Barbara Goldman (MDRC) Virginia Knox (MDRC)
Sponsor(s)	State of Minnesota Department of Human Services
Funder(s)	State of Minnesota Department of Human Services US Department of Health and Human Services Ford Foundation McKnight Foundation Northwest Area Foundation US Department of Agriculture Annie E. Casey Foundation Charles Stewart Mott Foundation
Subcontractor(s)	Research Triangle Institute Wilder Research Center

Domain	Income Security/TANF Child/Family
Status	Completed with continuing analysis
Duration	Jan 1993 - Jun 2000
Type	Research and/or Program Evaluation
Goal	To evaluate the components of Minnesota Family Investment Program (MFIP).
Program/Policy Description	MFIP attempts to encourage work, alleviate poverty, and reduce welfare dependence through financial incentives and mandatory participation in employment-focused services for long-term welfare recipients, which expands on the pre-existing voluntary STRIDE employment program. Child Outcomes Survey: Enhanced survey developed to obtain information about MFIP's impacts on children. Target measures include child care, education, health and safety, and social and emotional adjustment.
Notes	Includes enhanced child outcomes survey as part of the Project on State-Level Child Outcomes: Enhancing Measurement of Child Outcomes in State Welfare Evaluations and Other State Data Collections.

Last Updated	08/03/05
Type of Summary	Reviewed
External Reviewer(s)	Virginia Knox (MDRC)
Contact(s)	Virginia Knox (virginia_knox@mdrc.org) MDRC 16 East 34th Street 19th Floor (T) (212)-532-3200 (F) (212)-684-0832
Publications Department	MDRC Publications (publications@mdrc.org) MDRC 16 East 34th Street 19th Floor (T) (212) 532-3200 (F) (212) 684-0832

Populations Studied

Target Population

Recipients/participants/clients
Applicants
Children

Subgroups Analyzed

Single parent families
Two-parent families
Rural Populations

Sample Size and Unit

14,369 welfare applicants and clients (families).

Random sample of 7,208 experimental group (MFIP or MFIP/STRIDE) and 7,431 control group (AFDC/STRIDE or AFDC) members.

Note: A four group design for single-parents was used in Hennepin county; a three group design for single parents was used in Anoka and Dakota; a 2 group design was used for two-parent families in both urban and rural areas; and a 2 group design for non-public assistance Food Stamp families was used in rural areas only.

Sites Studied

Hennepin County (Minneapolis), Minnesota
Anoka County, Minnesota
Dakota County, Minnesota
Mille Lacs County, Minnesota
Morrison County, Minnesota
Sherburne County, Minnesota
Todd County, Minnesota
Ramsey County (St. Paul), Minnesota

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