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Targeting in social programs : avoiding bad bets, removing bad apples / Peter H. Schuck, Richard J. Zeckhauser.

Title
Targeting in social programs : avoiding bad bets, removing bad apples / Peter H. Schuck, Richard J. Zeckhauser.
Author
Schuck, Peter H.
Publication
Washington, D.C. : Brookings Institution Press, c2006.

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Additional Authors
Zeckhauser, Richard.
Description
x, 170 p. : ill.; 24 cm.
Summary
"Provides a framework for analyzing the challenges involved in defining bad bets and bad apples and discusses the safeguards that any classification process must provide. Examines public schools, public housing, and medical care and proposes policy changes that could reduce the problems these two groups pose in social welfare programs"--Provided by publisher.
Uniform Title
Project Muse UPCC books
Subject
  • Since 1993
  • Public welfare administration > United States
  • Human services > Government policy > United States
  • United States > Social policy > 1993-
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. 137-161) and index.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
Introduction -- Conceptual foundations of target efficiency -- High stakes, misguided evasions, and bad policies -- Avoiding bad bets -- Removing bad apples -- Predictive accuracy and procedural protection -- Better information, better targeting, and better policies.
ISBN
  • 0815778805 (cloth : alk. paper)
  • 9780815778806 (cloth : alk. paper)
LCCN
  • ^^2006029184
  • 9780815778806
OCLC
  • 71244021
  • SCSB-9896073
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library