Welfare, Children, and Families: A Three-City Study: Outcomes Assessed

Outcomes Assessed

Benefit termination

  • Due to employment
  • Due to marriage
  • Due to time limit
  • Due to sanctions
  • Due to substance abuse

Education

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

Employment

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

Family and relationship outcomes

  • Births/pregnancies
  • Fatherhood
  • Parent-child interactions
  • Family formation and stability/Living arrangements
  • Foster care

Income security

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

Housing

  • Residential mobility
  • Homelessness

Substance abuse

  • Patterns and severity of substance use

Standard of living

  • Standard of living - misc.

Service utilization

  • Service utilization - misc.

Program implementation

  • Program Implementation - misc.

Emotional well-being

  • Emotional well-being - misc.

Health/ physical well-being (including prenatal health)

  • Health/ physical well-being - misc.

Community Outcomes

  • Community economic development (e.g. labor market outcomes)
  • Community Outcomes - 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