The National Survey of America’s Families
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The Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996 can be considered the centerpiece of welfare reform. Peter H. Rossi’s paper examines the contributions of current research projects to PRWORA evaluation, including the Urban Institute’s Assessing the New Federalism (ANF) project and its National Survey of America’s Families. Rossi seems to prefer social experiments to survey analysis as ways of researching PRWORA. Among surveys, he seems to like the Census Bureau’s Survey of Income and Program Participation and its offspring, the Survey of Program Dynamics, better than NSAF.
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