The negative income tax experiments were designed to influence political debate on income support policy in at least two ways. One was methodological -to focus the policy debate on a few key empirical questions and produce more definitive evidence than would have been available through nonexperimental methods. Another was political -to legitimize the idea of a universal cash transfer program, s...

While studies show that most people are not able to keep weight loss for the long-term, probably due lack of motivation, recent effective choice and implementation motivational strategies fundamental building up positive-thinking long-term as well succeeding at habit-formation. This manuscript provides qualitative research on effect motivation a factor in behavioral interventions reduce overwei...

BACKGROUND: The homeless population is among the poorest of the poor in the United States. Employment and government programs are potential sources of income, but many homeless people face potential barriers to work: many have serious mental and physical disabilities, and many more have alcohol and drug disorders. As a result, most homeless who work do so either for a few hours per day or only ...

BACKGROUND: Policies and programs that emphasize employment for persons with mental illness are often promoted with the goals of improving economic self-sufficiency and reducing dependence on public welfare programs. At present, there is little empirical evidence about the actual effect of vocational interventions on economic self-sufficiency or on use of public benefits by persons with mental ...

I am cast on this panel as offering an economist’s view of the policy lessons to be drawn from the income maintenance experiments. That will be true enough if you take the word "an" seriously. I am indubitably a card-carrying economist. But I have the feeling that -on these particular matters at least -my views are not always those of the typical economist. Part of the difference, but only part...

MORE THAK one-sixth of the civilian noninstitutional population of working age were limited in their ability to work because of a chronic health condition or impairment in 1966. A major proportion of the waste of manpower through involuntary nonparticipation in the labor force, unemployment, and underemployment may be attributed to disability. Public income-support programs provided income for ...

In research, the implementation of participatory environmentalism based on human ecology can overcome four problems that will be analyzed and solved through TS (tourism sector) ES (economic programs. emphasizes how important it is to an independent society in by utilizing its natural wealth primarily maritime sector, importance participation from various parties share space with nature, caring ...

This study develops and empirically tests the idea that the impact of structural complexity on perfective maintenance of object-oriented software is significantly determined by the task strategy of programming teams (independent or collaborative). Two key dimensions of software structure, coupling and cohesion, were analyzed with respect to both the maintenance effort and the perceived ease-of-...