surance policies aimed atalleviating poverty. Fifty years later, many of these programs and policies—or variations of them—are still in effect. Primarily using data from literature, this paper analyzes the effectiveness of antipoverty programs over the last half-century.We find that social insurance programs have had much stronger effects on reducing poverty rates than have social assistance pr...

This empirical study applies competing theories of organization culture to examine policy assumptions about the Black church's role in providing faith-based social programs. Findings refute conventional wisdom by showing that, on average, Black churches have few social programs; denomination marginally predicts the number and types of programs offered; and congregations typically offer a narrow...

We present NDEx 2.0, the latest release of the Network Data Exchange (NDEx) online data commons (www.ndexbio.org) and the ways in which it can be used to (i) improve the quality and abundance of biological networks relevant to the cancer research community; (ii) provide a medium for collaboration involving networks; and (iii) facilitate the review and dissemination of networks. We describe inno...

I. Role of Surveillance in Disease Elimination Programs In routine disease control programs, traditional, passive disease surveillance systems are usually adequate to meet program demands despite their limitations. In contrast, in disease elimination or eradication programs, routine surveillance activities are inadequate once the goal is near. In advanced disease elimination and eradication pro...

Many recent articles have examined the delivery of family planning services to low-income areas. Some have described the implementation of specific regional family planning programs."5 Others have been more provocative, stressing that the government has a social responsibility to provide low-cost birth control to low-income neighborhoods."u Still others have used a cost-effectiveness analysis t...

The effect of identity, as socially constructed by race and gender, on social policies has been widely examined in policy analysis. Policy analysis would be improved by a wider discussion that includes the influence of social-psychological constructs on social provision. We fill this gap by drawing on the theory of the “belief in a just world” and link this theory to attitudes toward the suppor...

Researchers’ and practitioners’ recognition of the importance of community social and cultural relations ( “social capital”) to effective implementation of poverty reduction projects and differences in social capital across communities suggest that such projects should be tailored to the types of social capital present in a given community. Drawing upon a data set collected by the Northwest Are...

Can Mistargeting Destroy Social Capital and Stimulate Crime? Evidence from a Cash Transfer Program in Indonesia Cash transfer programs can provide important financial support for poor households in developing countries and are becoming increasingly common. However the potential for mistargeting of program funds is high. This paper focuses on the social consequences arising from misallocation of...

Parents have the potential to play an important role in the development of social capital in their children’s classrooms. Both theoretical and empirical evidence suggest that parents’ classroom participation is directly linked to higher academic achievement and pro-social behaviour in the children. This study examines the influence that the in-class parent reading component of the Partners in E...