Canada’s Self-Sufficiency Project (SSP) Evaluation: Publications

Existing Publications

03/01/96 Canada's Self-Sufficiency Project: When Work Pays Better than Welfare: A Summary of Canada's Self-Sufficiency Project's Implementation, Focus Group, and Initial 18-Month Impact Results SRDC
11/01/98 Canada's Self Sufficiency Project: When Financial Incentives Encourage Work: Complete 18-Month Findings from the Self-Sufficiency Project SRDC
05/01/99 Canada's Self Sufficiency Project: Does SSP Plus Increase Employment? SRDC
06/01/00 Canada's Self Sufficiency Project: The Self-Sufficiency Project at 36 Months: Effects of a Financial Work Incentive on Employment and Income SRDC
01/01/94 Canada's Self-Sufficiency Project: Making Work Pay Better than Welfare: An Early Look at the Self-Sufficiency Project (SDRC) SRDC
01/01/95 Canada's Self-Sufficiency Project: Creating an Alternative to Welfare: First-Year Findings on the Implementation, Welfare Impacts, and Costs of the Self-Sufficiency Project SRDC
01/01/95 Canada's Self-Sufficiency Project: The Struggle for Self-Sufficiency: Participants in the Self-Sufficiency Program Talk About Work, Welfare, and Their Futures SRDC
01/01/96 Canada's Self-Sufficiency Project: Do Financial Incentives Encourage Welfare Recipients to Work? Initial 18-Month Findings from the Self-Sufficiency Project SRDC
03/01/98 Canada's Self-Sufficiency Project: Do Work Incentives Have Unintended Consequences? Measuring the "Entry Effects" in the Self-Sufficiency Project SRDC
10/01/97 Canada's Earnings Supplement Project: Implementing the Earnings Supplement Project: A Test of a Re-employment Incentive SRDC
05/01/99 Canada's Earnings Supplement Project: A Financial Incentive to Encourage Employment Among Repeat Users of Employment Insurance SRDC
05/01/99 Canada's Earnings Supplement Project: Testing a Re-employment Incentive for Displaced Workers SRDC
04/01/00 New Hope Project: Encouraging Work, Reducing Poverty: The Impact of Work Incentive Programs MDRC
06/01/00 Canada's Self Sufficiency Project: The Self-Sufficiency Project at 36 Months: Effects on Children of a Program that Increased Parental Employment and Income SRDC
08/01/97 Canada's Self Sufficiency Project: How Important are "Entry Effects" in Financial Incentives Programs for Welfare Recipients?: Experimental Evidence from the Self-Sufficiency Project SRDC
07/01/01 Canada's Self-Sufficiency Program:SSP Plus at 36 Months: Effects of Adding Employment Services to Financial Work Incentives SESRC
11/01/01 Canada's Self-Sufficiency Program: When Financial Incentives Pay for Themselves: Interim Findings From the Self-Sufficiency Project’s Applicant Study SESRC
07/01/02 Canada's Self-Sufficiency Program: Making Work Pay: Final Report on the Self-Sufficiency Project for Long-Term Welfare Recipients SRDC
03/01/01 Canada's Earnings Supplement Project: The Frequent Use of Unemployment Insurance in Canada SRDC
03/01/02 Canada's Earnings Supplement Project: Essays on the Repeat Use of Unemployment Insurance SRDC
10/01/03 Canada's Self-Sufficiency Project: Can Work Incentives Pay for Themselves? Final Report on the Self-Sufficiency Project for Welfare Applicants SRDC
03/31/04 Canada's Earning Supplement Project (ESP) Evaluation: Understanding Employment Insurance Claim Patterns: Final Report of the Earnings Supplement Project SRDC
10/01/03 Canada Self Sufficiency Project Evaluation: Equilibrium Policy Experiments and the Evaluation of Social Programs SRDC
10/01/03 Canada Self-Sufficiency Project Evaluation: Assessing the Impact of Non-response on the Treatment Effect in the Canadian Self-Sufficiency Project SRDC
02/01/04 Canada Self-Sufficiency Project Evaluation: New Evidence From the Self-Sufficiency Project on the Potential of Earnings Supplements to Increase Labour Force Attachment Among Welfare Recipients SRDC
02/01/04 Canada Self-Sufficiency Project Evaluation: Employment, Earnings Supplements, and Mental Health: A Controlled Experiment SRDC
07/31/04 Canada Self-Sufficiency Project Evaluation: Sustaining: Making the Transition From Welfare to Work SRDC
07/01/04 Canada Self-Sufficiency Project Evaluation: An Econometric Analysis of the Impact of the Self-Sufficiency Project on Unemployment and Employment Durations SRDC
07/01/04 Canada Self-Sufficiency Project Evaluation: Out-of-School Time-Use During Middle Childhood in a Low-Income Sample: Do Combinations of Activities Affect Achievement and Behaviour? SRDC
05/01/04 Canada's Earnings Supplement Project Evaluation: Employment Insurance and Family Response to Unemployment: Canadian Evidence From the SLID SRDC