Targeting in social programs [electronic resource] : avoiding bad bets, removing bad apples / Peter H. Schuck, Richard J. Zeckhauser.
2006
HV95 .S38 2006eb
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Title
Targeting in social programs [electronic resource] : avoiding bad bets, removing bad apples / Peter H. Schuck, Richard J. Zeckhauser.
Author
Schuck, Peter H.
ISBN
0815778805 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780815778806 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780815778790
9780815778806 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780815778790
Publication Details
Washington, D.C. : Brookings Institution Press, c2006.
Language
English
Description
1 online resource (x, 170 p.) : ill.
Call Number
HV95 .S38 2006eb
Dewey Decimal Classification
361.6/120973
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.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 137-161) and index.
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Zeckhauser, Richard.
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