Publications
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Child Care, Early Education and Head Start ·
Child Welfare and Child Abuse ·
Education ·
Elderly ·
Family Policy, Marriage, and Divorce ·
Food Assistance, Food Stamps, and WIC ·
Health Care Policy ·
Income and Poverty ·
International and Cross-National Studies ·
Social Policy ·
Teen Sex and Non-Marital Births ·
Welfare Reform
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Books, Monographs, and Papers
From the Great Society to Continuous Improvement Government:
The Hopes of an Impatient Incrementalist [PDF], November 7, 2008
- Douglas J. Besharov
- Two Cheers for American Welfare
Reform -- Lessons Learned, Questions Raised, Next Steps [PDF], Policy Exchange (2008)
- Douglas J. Besharov
The New
Kindergarten: The case for universal pre-kindergarten isn't as strong as it seems [PDF], Wilson
Quarterly (Fall 2008)
- Douglas J. Besharov and Douglas M. Call
- Forum:
Preschool Puzzle: As State after State Expands Pre-K Schooling, Questions Remain [PDF], Education
Next 8, no. 4 (Fall 2008)
- Douglas J. Besharov and Craig Ramey
- Social
Welfare Conservatism, AEI On the Issues, January 2008
- Douglas J. Besharov
- Poverty Update:
The Long-Term Story behind the New Numbers [PDF], AEI On the Issues, September 27, 2007
- Douglas J. Besharov
- Nonpoor
Children in Head Start: Explanations and Implications [PDF], Journal of Policy Analysis and
Management 26, no. 3 (October 2007)
- Douglas J. Besharov and Jeffrey S. Morrow
- Federal
and State Child Care and Early Education Expenditures (1997-2005): Child Care Spending Falls as Pre-K Spending
Rises [PDF], September 4, 2007
- Douglas J. Besharov, Caeli A. Higney, and Justus A. Myers
- Cost
Per Child for Early Childhood Education and Care: Comparing Head Start, CCDF Child Care, and
Prekindergarten/Preschool Programs (2003/2004) [PDF], August 31, 2007
- Douglas J. Besharov, Justus A. Myers, and Jeffrey S. Morrow
- Giving
Head Start a Fresh Start [PDF], June 29, 2007
- Douglas J. Besharov and Caeli A. Higney
- Head
Start: Mend It, Don't Expand it [PDF], April 19, 2007
- Douglas J. Besharov and Caeli A. Higney
- Head
Start: Reply to Barnett and Currie [PDF], April 19, 2007
- Douglas J. Besharov and Caeli A. Higney
- Learning from
Abroad: A Center for the International Exchange of Policy Information [PDF], January 2007
- Douglas J. Besharov
- Rethinking
Child Care Research, Evaluation Review 30, no. 5 (2006)
- Douglas J. Besharov and Jeffrey S. Morrow, eds.
- Beyond
the Safety Net: A Brief Review Forty Years after the War on Poverty [PDF], November 3, 2006
- Douglas J. Besharov
- Two Cheers
for Welfare Reform, AEI On the Issues, August 2006
- Douglas J. Besharov
- Federal
and State Child Care Expenditures (1997-2004): Rapid Growth Followed by Steady Spending [PDF], June 9, 2006
- Douglas J. Besharov and Caeli A. Higney
- Child Care Data
in the Survey of Income and Program Participation (SIPP): Inaccuracies and Corrections [PDF], June 5, 2006
- Douglas J. Besharov, Jeffrey S. Morrow, and Anne Fengyan Shi
The Role
of Career and Technical Education: Implications for Federal Policy [PDF],
- Marie Cohen and Douglas J. Besharov
- Head Start's Broken
Promise [PDF], AEI On the Issues, October 2005
- Douglas J. Besharov
- Federal and State Child
Care Expenditures (1997-2003): Rapid Growth Followed by Steady Spending [PDF], August 2005
- Douglas J. Besharov and Caeli A. Higney
- Full-Engagement Welfare in New
York City: Lessons for TANF's Participation Requirements [PDF], August 2004
- Douglas J. Besharov and Peter Germanis
- Toughening TANF [PDF], March
2004
- Douglas J. Besharov and Peter Germanis
- Family Well-Being After Welfare
Reform, June 2003
- Douglas J. Besharov, Ed.
- Creating a
Market Place for Social Welfare Services [PDF], December 12, 2003
- Douglas J. Besharov
- The Past and Future
of Welfare Reform, Public Interest, Winter 2003
- Douglas J. Besharov
- Leaving
Welfare Without Working: How do mothers do it? And what are the implications? [PDF] February 2002
- Douglas J. Besharov
- Mandatory
Work-Related Activities for Welfare Recipients: The Next Step in Welfare Reform
[PDF], October 2001
- Marie Cohen
- Data Needs for Measuring Family and
Fertility Change After Welfare Reform, June 2001
- Douglas J. Besharov, ed., William D. Mosher and Joyce C. Abma, Stephanie J. Ventura, and Stanley K. Henshaw
- Rethinking WIC: An
Evaluation of the Women, Infants, and Children Program, January 2001
- Douglas J. Besharov and Peter Germanis
- Child
Care after Welfare Reform [PDF], 2001
- Douglas J. Besharov and Nazanin Samari
- Four Evaluations of Welfare Reform: What
Will Be Learned, 2001
- Douglas J. Besharov and Peter Germanis, ed., Peter H. Rossi
- Welfare Reform: Four Years
Later, Public Interest, Summer 2000
- Douglas J. Besharov and Peter Germanis
- Is WIC as good as they say? Public
Interest, Winter 1999
- Douglas J. Besharov and Peter Germanis
- Making Food Stamps
Part of Welfare Reform [PDF], Policy & Practice, June 1999
- Douglas J. Besharov and Peter Germanis
- Debating WIC, Public
Interest, Spring 1999
- Leighton Ku, Douglas J. Besharov and Peter Germanis
- Preventing Youthful
Disconnectedness [PDF], 1998
- Douglas J. Besharov and Karen N. Gardiner
- Feeding the Poor (Book
Summary), December 1998
- Peter H. Rossi
- Preventing Subsequent Births to Welfare
Mothers, February 1998
- Douglas J. Besharov and Peter Germanis, ed.
- Social
Welfare's Twin Dilemmas: "Universalism vs. Targeting" and "Support vs. Dependency"
[PDF], January 1998
- Douglas J. Besharov
- Evaluating Welfare Reform: A Guide for
Scholars and Practitioners, 1997 (PDF Version)
- Douglas J. Besharov, Peter Germanis and Peter H. Rossi
- Good Parents
Not Money [PDF], The Public Interest, Fall 1997
- Douglas J. Besharov and Mark H. Lopez
- The Politics
of Child Abuse in America (book review), [PDF], American Political Science Review, March 1997
- Douglas J. Besharov and Jacob W. Dembosky
- Don't Call It Child Abuse If
It's Really Poverty [PDF], Journal of Children and Poverty, Win-Spr, 1997
- Douglas J. Besharov and Lisa A. Laumann
- Sex Education
and Abstinence: Programs, Research, and Evaluation, January 1, 1997
- Douglas J. Besharov et al.
- Health Related Welfare Rules [PDF],
November 1996
- Douglas J. Besharov, Kristina Tanasichuk White, and Mark B. Coggeshall
- Welfare
Reform and Marriage [PDF], The Public Interest, Fall 1996
- Douglas J. Besharov and Timothy S. Sullivan
- One Flash:
America Is Experiencing an Unprecedented Increase in Black-White Intermarriage [PDF], The New
Democrat, July/August 1996
- Douglas J. Besharov and Timothy S. Sullivan
- Poverty, Welfare Dependency,
and the Underclass [PDF], 1996
- Douglas J. Besharov
- The Children of
Crack: A Status Report [PDF], Public Welfare, Winter 1996
- Douglas J. Besharov
- Using Work to
Reform Welfare [PDF], Public Welfare, Summer 1995
- Douglas J. Besharov
- On the Reform
of Welfare with Continued Dependency [PDF], Jobs & Capital, Winter 1995
- Douglas J. Besharov
- Broken Family Values (book review) [PDF], The Washington Post, January 15, 1995
- Douglas J. Besharov
- The Moral Voice of Welfare
Reform [PDF], 1993
- Douglas J. Besharov
- A Moral
Choice: Would Norplant Simply Stop Unwanted Pregnancies -- or Increase Destructive Teen
Sex? [PDF], National Review, August 9, 1993
- Douglas J. Besharov
- The Moral Dimensions
of Charity [PDF], Alternatives in Philanthropy, May 1992
- Douglas J. Besharov
- Recognizing Child Abuse:
A Guide for the Concerned, October 1990
- Douglas J. Besharov
- Recognizing
Child Abuse: The Trainer's Manual, 1990
- Douglas J. Besharov
- Crack and
Kids [PDF], Society, July/August, 1990
- Douglas J. Besharov
- Gaining
Control over Child Abuse Reports: Public Agencies Must Address Both Underreporting and Overreporting
[PDF], Public Welfare,
Spring, 1990
- Douglas J. Besharov
- The Children
of Crack: Will We Protect Them? [PDF], Public Welfare,
Fall, 1989
- Douglas J. Besharov
- Not All Female-Headed
Families Are Created Equal [PDF], May 1987
- Douglas J. Besharov and Alison J. Quin
- Child
Abuse: Arrest and Prosecution Decision-Making [PDF], American Criminal Law Review,
Fall, 1986
- Douglas J. Besharov
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Op-Eds
- The Right Kind
of Hand Up [PDF], The Washington Post, November 19, 2007
- Douglas J. Besharov
- The Rio Grande
Rises [PDF], The New York Times, October 1, 2007
- Douglas J. Besharov
- Two Cheers for
Welfare Reform, AEI On the Issues, August 2006
- Douglas J. Besharov
- End Welfare Lite
as We Know It, New York Times, August 15, 2006
- Douglas J. Besharov
- Poor America, Wall
Street Journal, March 24, 2006
- Douglas J. Besharov
- Head
Start's Broken Promise, AEI On the Issues, October 2005
- Douglas J. Besharov
- Broken
Yardstick [PDF], The New York Times, September 9, 2005
- Nicholas Eberstadt
- There's
More Welfare to Reform, The New York Times, March 6, 2004
- Douglas J. Besharov
- We're
Feeding the Poor as If They're Starving, The Washington Post, December
8, 2002, p. B1.
- Douglas J. Besharov
- Welfare
Rolls: On the Rise Again, The Washington Post, July 16, 2002
- Douglas J. Besharov
- The
New Retirement: Getting Old Ain't What It Used to Be, The Washington
Post, August 1, 1999
- Douglas J. Besharov and Keith W. Smith
- Asking
More From Matrimony, The New York Times, July 14, 1999
- Douglas J. Besharov
- The
Other Wisconsin Miracle: How Wisconsin foundations are helping create a responsive market for child
care [PDF], Philanthrophy Magazine, May/June 1999
- Douglas J. Besharov and Nazanin Samari
- Hard to Swallow:
The Scandal in the School Lunch Program Isn't About Pizza, The Washington
Post, March 28, 1999
- Douglas J. Besharov
- Beware The
Real Agenda, The New York Times, August 5, 1997
- Douglas J. Besharov
- Clinton
Undermines Welfare Reform--With GOP Help [PDF], The Wall Street Journal, July 10, 1997
- Douglas J. Besharov
- Tightening
the Welfare Noose, The New York Times, January 15, 1997
- Douglas J. Besharov
- Children
Deserve Chance to Live; The System Won't Accept the Uncomfortable Truth: Some
Parents Are Beyond the Help of Treatment Programs, The Orlando Sentinel,
December 22, 1996
- Douglas J. Besharov
- When
Home is Hell: We Are Too Reluctant to Take Children From Bad Parents,
The Washington Post, December 1, 1996
- Douglas J. Besharov
- How
to Help Welfare Mothers, The New York Times, November 13, 1996
- Douglas J. Besharov
- Inner
City Blues, The Washington Post, October 13, 1996
- Douglas J. Besharov
- Child
Abuse: Threat or Menace?, Slate, October 3, 1996
- Douglas J. Besharov and Jacob W. Dembosky
- Shaping
the Debate on Welfare Reform, The Washington Post, August 11, 1996
- Douglas J. Besharov
- A Look at Integration: The
Interracial Generation: From Mixed Marriages,
the Offspring of Hope [PDF], The Washington Post, July 21, 1996
- Douglas J. Besharov
- Waivers Change the Face of
Welfare [PDF], The Los Angeles Times, June 20, 1996
- Douglas J. Besharov
- Ignoring
the Danger Signs of Child Abuse, Newsday, April 21, 1996
- Douglas J. Besharov
- Welfare: An
Albatross for Young Mothers [PDF], The Wall Street Journal, February 28, 1996
- Douglas J. Besharov
- First
Lady Knows Best, The Washington Post, January 28, 1996
- Douglas J. Besharov
- How
To Save Children, The New York Times, January 13, 1996
- Douglas J. Besharov
- What
about the Poor: the Hope of a New Approach [PDF], The Washington Post, December 3, 1995
- Douglas J. Besharov
- A
Monster of His Own Creation, The Washington Post, Novemer 2, 1995
- Douglas J. Besharov
- Don't
Expect Miracles; But a Few Rules Would Go a Long Way Toward Fixing the Welfare
Mess, The Washington Post, July 23, 1995
- Douglas J. Besharov
- The
Welfare Balloon: Squeeze Hard on One Side and the Other Side Will Just Expand,
The Washington Post, June 11, 1995
- Douglas J. Besharov
- The Contraceptive Gap:
Millions for Cosmetics, Pennies for Better Birth Control [PDF], The Washington Post, March 12, 1995
- Douglas J. Besharov
- Orphanages Aren't
Real Issue [PDF], The Plano Star Courier, January 29, 1995
- Douglas J. Besharov
- Trapped in the
Day-Care Maze [PDF], The Washington Post, December 11, 1994
- Douglas J. Besharov
- Do We Have to
Give Up?: No. We Know How to Get Smart About IQ, The Washington Post,
October 23, 1994
- Douglas J. Besharov
- The Tightrope of Abuse
Reporting [PDF], The Times Educational Supplement, June 3, 1994
- Douglas J. Besharov
- Life Is
Not Just a Bowl of Condoms, The Washington Post, May 1, 1994
- Douglas J. Besharov
- Orphanages Aren't
Welfare Reform [PDF], The New York Times, January 20, 1994
- Douglas J. Besharov
- Escaping
the Dole: For Young Unwed Mothers, Welfare Reform Alone Can’t Make Work Pay [PDF], The Washington
Post, December 12, 1993
- Douglas J. Besharov
- The Veto
Option: Will Bill Get Bushwhacked on the Budget? [PDF] The Washington Post, October 3, 1993
- Douglas J. Besharov
- Pricing Health Care:
Biggest "Sponger" of Health Care? Government Itself [PDF], The Wall Street Journal, September 22, 1993
- Douglas J. Besharov
- Welfare
As We Don't Know It, The Washington Post, July 4, 1993
- Douglas J. Besharov
- Fresh
Start: What Works in Head Start? [PDF] The New Republic, June 14, 1993
- Douglas J. Besharov
- It's Time for
Common Sense on Using Norplant [PDF], The Philadelphia Inquirer, May 23, 1993
- Douglas J. Besharov
- Teen Sex:
Truth and Consequences, The Orlando Sentinel, February 21, 1993
- Douglas J. Besharov and Karen N. Gardiner
- The
Perverse Federal Incentive for Welfare Cuts, Governing, February
1993
- Douglas J. Besharov and Karen Baehler
- That Other Clinton
Promise -- Ending "Welfare as We Know It" [PDF], The Wall Street Journal, January 18, 1993
- Douglas J. Besharov
- A Good
Beginning [PDF], The Washington Post, November 1, 1992
- Douglas J. Besharov
- Beyond Murphy
Brown: We're Ignorning the Fact that All Single Mothers Aren't Alike,
The Washington Post, September 27, 1992
- Douglas J. Besharov
- Improving child
protective services: how to expand and implement the consensus, Children Today, March 1992
- Douglas J. Besharov
- Why
Head Start Needs a Re-start: Poverty, Violence Threaten the Gains [PDF], The Washington
Post, February 2, 1992
- Douglas J. Besharov
- New Directions
for Head Start [PDF], The World & I, January 1992
- Douglas J. Besharov
- Cautions
for the New Paternalism, The Washington Post, January 5, 1992
- Douglas J. Besharov
- Unemployment
Issues Go Beyond Race [PDF], The New York Times, December 14, 1991
- Douglas J. Besharov
- Operation
Domestic Storm: Military Strategies for the Domestic Front [PDF], Virginia Town and City, June 1991
- Douglas J. Besharov
- Whose
Life Is It Anyway?: Pregnant Crack Users Act as Child Abusers, The
National Law Journal, March 4, 1991
- Douglas J. Besharov
- Lessons
from the McMartin Case, The Christian Science Monitor, February
9, 1990
- Douglas J. Besharov
- The
Tragedy of Child Abuse: We all share the blame for the death of Bradley McGee,
The St. Petersburg Times, September 3, 1989
- Douglas J. Besharov
- Let's
Give Crack Babies a Way Out Of Addict Families, Newsday, September
3, 1989
- Douglas J. Besharov
- Get
the Message Out: Crack and Pregnancy Don't Mix [PDF], The Philadelphia Inquirer, August 20, 1989
- Douglas J. Besharov
- Crack
Babies: The Worst Threat is Mom Herself, The Washington Post, August
6, 1989
- Douglas J. Besharov
- Child
Care Credit is Test of Bush's "Kindness", The Los Angeles Times,
November 11, 1988
- Douglas J. Besharov and Paul N. Tramontozzi
- The Politics
of Day-Care: We're About to Spend Billions on a Dubious Middle Class "Crisis",
The Washington Post, August 6, 1988
- Douglas J. Besharov
- Child
Care Subsidies: Mostly for the Middle Class, The Washington Post,
May 2, 1988
- Douglas J. Besharov and Paul N. Tramontozzi
- The
ABCs of Child-Care Politics [PDF], The Wall Street Journal, March 9, 1988
- Douglas J. Besharov
- Make It a
Crime to Spread AIDS: Counseling Isn't Enough for Reckless or Deliberate Infectors [PDF],
The Washington Post, October 18, 1987
- Douglas J. Besharov
- Unwed
Moms Are White, Too: Once Again the Conventional Wisdom Has It Wrong [PDF], The
Washington Post, May 3, 1987
- Douglas J. Besharov
- One
Policy for Working Moms Won't Fit All [PDF], The Wall Street Journal, October 29, 1986
- Douglas J. Besharov
- Go Slow on Welfare
Reform [PDF], The Wall Street Journal, March 18, 1987
- Douglas J. Besharov
- Put Politics
Aside and Help the "Head Start" Program, The New York Times, December
28, 1985
- Douglas J. Besharov and Terry W. Hartle
- Return the
Family to 1954 [PDF], The Wall Street Journal, July 8, 1985
- Douglas J. Besharov
- Overreach
of the Guardian State [PDF], The Wall Street Journal, April 2, 1984
- Douglas J. Besharov
- To
Protect the Abused [PDF], The New York Times, April 2, 1980
- Douglas J. Besharov
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Conference Papers
Measuring Poverty after Katrina
, American Enterprise Institute Press
Briefing, August 28, 2006
- Measuring
Poverty after Katrina
- Douglas J. Besharov
- Material
Deprivation in Modern America: Looking beyond the "Poverty Rate"
- Nicholas Eberstadt
Welfare Reform Two Years Later
, July 30, 1998
- Welfare Reform:
Two Years Later
(Notes.)
- Douglas J. Besharov
- Remarks.
- Lawrence Mead
Pregnancy Prevention and Welfare Reform
, June 5, 1998
- Opening Remarks
- Douglas J. Besharov
- Parents and Teens on Love, Sex, and
Relationships: Research, Parents Tips, and Polling Data [PDF]
- Sarah Brown
- Repeat Pregnancy for Those Not
Pregnant at Program Entry
- Marva Hammons
- Is There a Link Between Welfare
Reform and Teen Pregnancy?
- Richard Nathan
- Understanding the Rise in
Illegitimacy (Slides.
Tables.)
- Robert Rector
Teenage Sexuality and Contraceptive Use
, May 1, 1998
- Teenage Sexual Behavior and
Contraceptive Use: An Update. (PDF Version.
Slides.)
- Joyce Abma and Freya Sonenstein
- Trends in Teen Sexual Behavior:
Are They Real?.
- Christine Bachrach
- Trends in Teen Sexual Behavior [PDF]
- Douglas J. Besharov and Karen Gardiner
- Teens in Crisis: A Comprehensive
Strategy to Protect Adolescent Health [PDF], (Slides)
- Kate Michelman
- Teenage Sexuality and Contraceptive
Use: An Update
- Tom Smith
- Possible Explanations for Changes
in Teenage Sexual Behavior [PDF]
- Pat Funderburk Ware
Child Care and Welfare Reform
, April 3, 1998
- Child Care Falling
Short for Low-Income and Working Families. (Talking Points)
- Helen Blank
- Child Care and Welfare
Reform.
- The Hon. Larry E. Craig
- Managed Day Care Makes
Its Debut
-
- Head Start and Welfare
Reform [PDF]
- Wade F. Horn
- Spending on Early Childhood
Care Programs and Research: An Analysis of Federal Departments, State Governments, and Foundations [PDF]
- Pamela Jones, Christine Ross, and Stuart Kerachsky
- State Efforts to Expand
Child Care Programs (GAO Report - PDF.
Slides.)
- Mark Nadel
- Child Care and Welfare Reform: The Wisconsin Experience.
(Remarks. PDF Slides: 1-3,
4, 5,
6.)
- John Weicher
Preventing Second Births to Teenage Mothers: Demonstration
Findings
, March 6, 1998
- The Role of Psychological Factors
- Marilyn Benoit
- Opening
Remarks (PDF Slides)
- Douglas J. Besharov
- Can Intervention Programs
Prevent Subsequent Births to Teenage Mothers?
- Lorraine Klerman
- Research on Teen Parent Programs [PDF]
- Rebecca Maynard
- Repeat Teen
Births (PDF Slides)
- Kristin Moore
- Prenatal and Infancy Home
Visitation by Nurses: A Program of Research (Slides.)
- David Olds
Welfare Reform: What Happens After Time Limits, Sanctions, and
Diversions?
, February 6, 1998
- Time Limiting Welfare: Lessons
from the States
- Judith Gueron
- The New Welfare: Diversions,
Sanctions, Time Limits
- Lawrence M. Mead
- Keynote Remarks
- The Hon. Donna Shalala
- Florida's Work and Gain Economic
Self-Sufficiency (WAGES) Program [PDF]
- Don Winstead
Abstinence Education Grants and Welfare Reform
, June 6, 1997
- Trends in Sexual Activity and
Abstinence Among U.S. Men and Women (PDF Slides)
- Christine Bachrach
- Abstinence Education Grants Under
Welfare Reform
- David Bellis
- Making Abstinence Work
- Elayne Bennett
- Using Abstinence
Funding (Survey. Appendix.)
- Sarah Brown
- What Do We Know About Abstinence
Programs?
- Barbara Devaney
- Abstinence Education Under
Welfare Reform (Appendix A. Appendix
B. Table 1.)
- Ron Haskins and Carol Statuto Bevan
- Abstinence Education Grants
- Jodie Levin-Epstein
- Programs and Approaches
- Pat Funderburk Ware
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Reconsidering the Federal Poverty Measure Seminar
Seminar 1: A Mismatch Between the Official Poverty Count and Other Social Welfare
Indicators?
July 20, 2004
- Reconsidering the
Federal Poverty Measure [PDF]
- Douglas J. Besharov and Peter Germanis
- Poverty
Measure Seminar Summary, Session 1 [PDF]
- Douglas J. Besharov and Gordon Green, with John Iceland
Seminar 2: Measuring the Material Well-Being of Poor Children
, September 14, 2004
- Can We Fix the Federal
Poverty Measure So It Provides Reliable Information about Changes in Children's Living Conditions? [PDF]
- Christopher Jencks, Susan E. Mayer, and Joseph Swingle
- Poverty
Measure Seminar Summary, Session 2 [PDF]
- Douglas J. Besharov and Gordon Green
Seminar 3: Poverty by Definition of Income
, October 12, 2004
- Towards Decisions on a
Pre-transfer Poverty Measure [PDF]
- Charles Murray
- Income Data Quality
Issues in the Annual Social and Economic Supplement to the Current Population Survey [PDF]
- Daniel H. Weinberg
- Reductions in Poverty in the
1990s Significantly Greater Than Official Estimates Suggest [PDF]
- Joint Economic Committee Democrats, Economic Policy Brief
- Poverty
Measure Seminar Summary, Session 3 [PDF]
- Douglas J. Besharov and Gordon Green
Seminar 4: Consumer Expenditures, Consumption, and Poverty Measurement
,
November 18, 2004
- Measuring Consumption and
Consumption Poverty: Possibilities and Issues [PDF]
- David S. Johnson
- The Household Arrangements of
Hispanics [PDF]
- Roberto Suro
- Poverty
Measure Seminar Summary, Session 4 [PDF]
- Douglas J. Besharov and Gordon Green
Seminar 5: The Poverty Thresholds: What Additional Forms of Income Can Be Counted Using
the Current Thresholds? And, Under What Conditions Should the Thresholds Be Changed?
January 11, 2005
- Measuring Poverty: Income
Thresholds and Resource Measures [PDF]
- Timothy Smeeding
- Measuring Poverty: What Should
be Counted Where? [PDF]
- Patricia Ruggles
- Misclassification in an experimental
poverty measure [PDF]
- Richard Bavier
- Poverty
Measure Seminar Summary, Session 5 [PDF]
- Douglas J. Besharov and Gordon Green
Seminar 6: Indicators of Deprivation and Well-Being in Modern America
, March 8, 2005
- Indicators of Deprivation and
Well-Being in Modern America [Power Point]
- Nicholas Eberstadt
- Poverty and Health [Power Point]
- Jennifer Madans, Kimberly Lochner, and Diane Makuc
- Poverty
Measure Seminar Summary, Session 6 [PDF]
- Douglas J. Besharov and Gordon Green
Seminar 7: Alternative Measures of Income Poverty and the Anti-Poverty Effects of
Taxes and Transfers
, May 10, 2005
- Tonight's Discussion
[Power Point]
- Douglas J. Besharov
- Alternative Measures of Income
Poverty and the Anti-poverty Effects of Taxes and Transfers (presentation) [Power Point]
- Daniel H. Weinberg
- Alternative
Measures of Income Poverty and the Anti-poverty Effects of Taxes and Transfers [PDF]
- Daniel H. Weinberg
- Supplemental Tables - Part 1 - Part 2 [PDF]
- Retooling the Poverty Measure
[PDF]
- Robert D. Reischauer
- Poverty Measure Seminar Summary, Session 7
[PDF]
- Douglas J. Besharov and Gordon Green
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Testimony
- Testimony
on Measuring Poverty in America, U.S. Congress, House Committee on Ways and Means, Subcommittee on
Income Security and Family Support, August 1, 2007 [PDF]
- Douglas J. Besharov
Testimony
on Early Care and Education, Joint Economic Committee, U.S. Congress, June 27, 2007 [PDF]
- Douglas J. Besharov
- Testimony
on The Economic Stagnation of the Black Middle Class, U.S. Commission on Civil Rights, July 15, 2005 [PDF]
- Douglas J. Besharov
- Testimony on Expanding
the African-American Middle Class: Improving Labor Market Outcomes, U.S. Commission on Civil Rights,
July 15, 2005 [PDF]
- Harry J. Holzer
- Testimony
on Growing Overweight and Obesity in America: The Potential Role of Federal Nutrition Programs, Senate
Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry, April 3, 2003 [PDF]
- Douglas J. Besharov
- Testimony on State Implementation
of Work Requirements Under Welfare Reform, House Committee on Ways and Means, Subcommittee on Human
Resources, March 7, 2002 [PDF]
- Douglas J. Besharov
- Testimony on Federal
Child Care Funding, House Committee on Education and the Workforce, Subcommittee on 21st Century
Competitiveness, February 27, 2002 [PDF]
- Douglas J. Besharov
- Testimony on Early
Childhood Programs and Their Impacts on Low-income Children and Families, Senate Committee on Health,
Education, Labor and Pensions, Subcommittee on Children and Families, April 11, 2000 [PDF]
- Douglas J. Besharov
- Testimony on the Effects
of Welfare Reform, House Committee on Ways and Means, Subcommittee on Human Resources, May 27, 1999
- Douglas J. Besharov
- Testimony on Unmarried Mothers
and Welfare Reform, Senate Committee on Finance, March 14, 1995
- Douglas J. Besharov
- Testimony on the
Federal Child Care Programs, Senate Committee on Labor and Human Resources, Children and Families
Subcommittee, February 16, 1995
- Douglas J. Besharov
- Testimony on the Future of
Family Programs, House Committee on Ways and Means, January 17, 1995
- Douglas J. Besharov
- Testimony on the Future
of Family Programs, House Committee on Ways and Means, January 17, 1995
- Douglas J. Besharov
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