Outcomes Assessed

Caseload Dynamics

• Entry effects
• Exit effects
• Caseload dynamics - misc.
• Recidivism

Benefit termination

• Due to employment
• Due to marriage
• Due to time limit
• Due to sanctions
• Due to employer-provided health insurance

Family and relationship outcomes

• Violence in family or other relationships (child abuse and neglect)
• Births/pregnancies
• Fatherhood
• Parent-child interactions
• Family formation and stability/Living arrangements
• Foster care
• Parenting attitudes
• Parenting skills

Education

• High school graduation/GED receipt
• School attendance
• Education - misc.

Employment

• Job readiness/training
• Job attainment
• Job retention
• Job promotion
• Number of hours worked for wages
• Job creation

Income security

• Child support payments
• Earnings
• Food stamps receipt
• Medicaid receipt
• Welfare receipt

Adult outcomes

• Emotional well-being
• Health/ physical well-being (including prenatal health)
• Social functioning/social relationships
• Adult outcomes - misc.

Housing

• Residential mobility
• Homelessness
• Housing - misc.

Substance abuse

• Patterns and severity of substance use
• Substance abuse - misc.

Attitudes towards work, welfare, and program

• Attitudes towards work, welfare, and program - misc.

Standard of living

• Standard of living - misc.

Service utilization

• Service utilization - misc.

Sanctions

• Sanctions - misc.

Program implementation

• Program Implementation - misc.
• City-State relations
• Volunteer sector actions
• Capacity of management systems to meet priorities

Emotional well-being

• Emotional well-being - misc.

Health/ physical well-being (including prenatal health)

• Health/ physical well-being - misc.

Financial costs and benefits/cost-effectiveness

• Financial costs and benefits/cost-effectiveness - misc.

Community Outcomes

• Community economic development (e.g. labor market outcomes)
• Community Outcomes - misc.
• Community interpersonal relationships (“neighborhood effects”)
• Community poverty rates
• Community safety (e.g. crime rates and/or general perceptions of safety)

Entry effects

• Entry effects - misc.

Policy changes

• Policy changes-misc.

Exit effects

• Exit effects-misc.

Child Outcomes

• Child social/emotional/behavioral outcomes
• Child cognitive (attention, problem solving, memory, language, and vocabulary) outcomes
• Child academic outcomes
• Child overall development
• Child mental/physical health outcomes