The consensus of economic experts is that income-tested programs are more efficient than non-income-tested tax-transfer programs. Most widely favored as a policy proposal is the negative income tax, (NIT) an income-tested program. This view apparently stems from the widespt:ead use of the· target efficiency measure--a conceptually flawed measure of technical rather than economic efficiency. In ...

The private sector continues to play social welfare expenditures series.’ Viewed as a share of gross domestic an increasingly important role in financPrivate outlays include a large share product (GDP) as shown in table 1, ing the Nation’s aggregate social welfare of health and medical care expenditures, private sector support of social welfare programs. This note provides estimates as well as ...

Observed child care quality and parent perceptions of child care quality received by children in poor (below Federal Poverty Line, FPL), low-income (between FPL and 200% of FPL), and non-low-income families were examined. Observations were completed in 359 centerand home-based child care programs in four Midwestern states and surveys were received from 1313 parents whose children were enrolled ...

This study reports on 20 years of private social welfare spending, from 1972 through 199 1. The private sector is playing an increasingly important role in financing the Nation's aggregate social welfare programs; this section assumes a large share of health and medical care expenditures, as well as income-maintenance benefits, the latter in areas of employment-related pensions, group life insu...

results patients reported that their use of methamphetamine was motivated by methadone’s side effects and encouraged by family and friends who promoted methamphetamine use to assuage the side effects of methadone in the early stages of treatment before the appearance of methadone maintenance therapy’s effects on their life. patients and methods to gain a better understanding of patients’ motiva...

INCOME/STAR is a conception of an integrated environment for the development and maintenance of large, distributed information systems. It extends INCOME, an already existing and commercially available tool for conceptual modelling and prototyping of information systems, by the following features: • design of data and transactions distribution, • physical design, • hypertext interface for desig...

BACKGROUND The Manitoba Healthy Baby Program is aimed at promoting pre- and perinatal health and includes two components: 1) prenatal income supplement; 2) community support programs. The goal of this research was to determine the uptake of these components by target groups. METHODS Data on participation in each of the two program components were linked to data on all hospital births in Manit...