Irwin Garfinkel

Columbia University

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Sara McLanahan

Princeton University

Jane Waldfogel

Columbia University

Christopher Wimer

Columbia University

Jeanne Brooks‐Gunn

University of Wisconsin–Madison

Robert Haveman

University of Wisconsin–Madison

Chien‐Chung Huang

National Cheng Kung University

Neeraj Kaushal

Columbia University

Timothy M. Smeeding

University of Wisconsin–Madison

Lenna Nepomnyaschy

Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey

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Columbia University

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Fragile families and welfare reform

Children and Youth Services Review (2001)

Irwin Garfinkel Sara McLanahan

Child support

10.1016/s0190-7409(01)80008-6

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Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing Study [Public Use Data]

ICPSR Data Holdings (2011)

Jeanne Brooks‐Gunn Irwin Garfinkel Sara McLanahan Christina Paxson

Child Well-Being

10.3886/icpsr31622

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Income Testing in Income Support Programs for the Aged

Elsevier eBooks (1982)

David Berry Irwin Garfinkel Raymond Munts

Income Support

10.1016/b978-0-12-275880-5.50019-1

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Benefit-Cost Analysis in Program Evaluation

Journal of Social Service Research (1978)

Stanley H. Masters Irwin Garfinkel John A. Bishop

This paper discusses how benefit-cost analysis can help in the evaluation of human services programs. Various kinds of benefits and costs are discussed, as well as how they can be estimated empirically. Benefits and costs, the authors argue, should be evaluated from a wide variety of perspectives, including that of the agency, program participants, all nonparticipants, and society as a whole. In order to compare benefits to costs and make comparisons across programs, quantitative measures of benefits, in dollar terms, are very useful. But benefits should not be ignored simply because they cannot be cosily converted to dollars or because they have not been found to be "statistically significant." Alternative approaches for dealing with these problems are discussed. In particular, it is suggested that the policy analyst consider various value judgments about unmeasured benefits and costs, and the policy implications that follow from these alternative value judgments. To aid the reader in evaluating the study, the analyst's own value judgments and their policy implications should be explicitly stated.

Liberian dollar

Value (mathematics)

10.1300/j079v02n01_07

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RESPONSE TO SCHUTZMAN CRITIQUE

Policy Studies Journal (1984)

Irwin Garfinkel Donald T. Oellerich

10.1111/j.1541-0072.1984.tb01702.x

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Economic Inequality and the Utilization of Earnings Capacity

Elsevier eBooks (1977)

Irwin Garfinkel Robert Haveman

10.1016/b978-0-12-275850-8.50009-2

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Cohesive Neighborhoods Where Social Expectations Are Shared May Have Positive Impact On Adolescent Mental Health

Carolina Digital Repository (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill) (2016)

Louis Donnelly Sara McLanahan Jeanne Brooks‐Gunn Irwin Garfinkel Brandon Wagner

10.17615/8vte-hq05

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The Effect of the Great Recession and Dopamine Receptor Gene DRD2 on Maternal Harsh Parenting

Dohoon Lee Sara McLanahan Jeanne Brooks‐Gunn Irwin Garfinkel Daniel A. Notterman

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Better Child Support Enforcement

Journal of Family Issues (2004)

Robert D. Plotnick Irwin Garfinkel Sara McLanahan Inhoe Ku

Stricter child support enforcement may reduce unwed childbearing by raising the costs of fatherhood. The authors investigate this hypothesis using a sample of young women from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth, to which they add information on state child support enforcement. Models of the probability of a teenage premarital birth and of teenage premarital pregnancy and pregnancy resolution provide tentative evidence that during the early 1980s, teens living in states with higher rates of paternity establishment were less likely to become unwed mothers. This relationship is stronger for non-Hispanic Whites than for non-Hispanic Blacks. The findings suggest that policies that shift more costs of premarital child-bearing to men may reduce this behavior, at least among non-Hispanic Whites.

Child support

10.1177/0192513x03258311

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Incentives to Work. By David Macarov. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 1970. 253 pp. $8.75

Social Work (1971)

Irwin Garfinkel

10.1093/sw/16.2.123

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