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Impact Study (Controlled Experiment)
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To determine how the full MFIP program and the traditional full AFDC program differ.
To determine the impact of MFIP’s mandatory employment and training when added to the identical MFIP financial incentives (full MFIP compared to MFIP using voluntary STRIDE employment program).
To determine the impact of MFIP’s financial incentives when added to the voluntary STRIDE services (MFIP using voluntary STRIDE employment program compared to traditional AFDC using voluntary STRIDE employment program).
To determine the impact of voluntary STRIDE services when added to the identical AFDC financial incentives (AFDC using voluntary STRIDE employment program compared with traditional AFDC with no services).
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Implementation/Process Study
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To yield lessons regarding the feasibility of replicating the program elsewhere and explain the factors that contribute to the program’s impacts.
To measure the dimensions of financial incentives and case management that may be correlated with the program’s impacts.
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Cost-Benefit Study
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To assess the program’s benefits and costs from four perspectives: social, taxpayers’, budgetary, and recipients’. The cost portion of the analysis will estimate the program’s average gross cost per person in each of the program groups and also its average net cost. The benefits of the program will be drawn from the analysis of the program’s impacts.
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Descriptive/Analytical Study
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Enhanced survey developed to obtain information about MFIP’s impacts on children. Focus on sample members with a child between ages 5 and 12 at the time of interview. Projected sample of 4,462 completions, including a sample with non-focal-aged children. Target measures: child care, education, health and safety, social and emotional adjustment.
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