Military Veterans and Welfare Reform: Bridging Two Policy Worlds through Qualitative Longitudinal Research

Research on Aging Military Veterans; Lifespan Implications of Military Service

S continued was associated with significantly elevated PTSD symptom severity at the time of no PTSD diagnosis. No evidence was found for an aggravation of PTSD due to stressors associated with aging. [Author Abstract] Elder, G.H., & Clipp, E.C. (1988). Combat experience, comradeship, and psychological health. In J.P. Wilson, Z. Harel, & B. Kahana (Eds.), Human adaptation to extreme stress: From...

Improving Child Outcomes through Welfare Reform

This paper investigates how government antipoverty programs in the United States can support the development of disadvantaged children. I accomplish this by formalizing and estimating a model in which maternal investments of time and money determine child outcomes. Mothers choose these investments, their labor supply, and their program participation subject to constraints on their time and budg...

Welfare reform at 15 and the state of policy analysis.

This article offers a review of welfare reform evaluation studies, summarizing research that has generated a consensus among mainstream policy analysts that the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996 (PRWORA) has had few effects beyond caseload reductions and increases in employment. Given that supporters and opponents alike expected the law to have profound con...

Bridging science and practice in child welfare and children’s mental health service systems through a two-decade research center trajectory

Summary: Over the past two decades, research on social work practice has experienced substantial growth in the United States, indicated by both the establishment of the Society for Social Work Research in 1994 and increased funding from the National Institutes of Health (NIH). Recently, this growth has carried an increasing emphasis on research to establish the evidence base for social work pra...

[Bridging gaps between research and policy].