This paper examines the impacts of access to extension services and cooperative membership on technology adoption, asset ownership and poverty using household-level data from rural Nigeria. Using different matching techniques and endogenous switching regression approach, we find that both extension access and cooperative membership have a positive and statistically significant effect on technol...

A spate of recent reports on President Clinton’s 1996 welfare reform initiative, the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act (“PRA”), indicates that the new welfare regime appears to be working. Although results vary by state, welfare rolls have dropped dramatically as many former recipients have gone to work. It remains to be seen whether the welfare population is bette...

While child welfare services are intended, in part, to diminish maltreatment's negative impact on adolescents' development, there is evidence that receiving child welfare services affects adolescents' substance use adversely. The literature on the extent and correlates of this problem is still emerging. The present study aims to fill part of this gap by examining the association between baselin...

Although recent research has highlighted the importance of "bridging the gap" between child welfare and substance abuse treatment delivery systems, few studies examine specific factors that may facilitate such collaboration. This study examined similarities and differences in values and perceived capacity for collaboration between substance abuse and child welfare fields based on survey data fr...

National Institutes of Health) to conduct studies and demonstration projects leading to strengthening of family life ; c. urging the Federal Government to encourage States to utilize appropriate available services of voluntary agencies, as well as involving them in studying problems of family disintegration and breakdown and in developing coordinated programs for strengthening of family life; a...

IfADo – Leibniz Research Centre for Working Environment and Human Factors, Dortmund University of Technology, Ardeystr. 67, 44139 Dortmund, Germany BGW – Institution for Statutory Accident Insurance and Prevention in the Health and Welfare Services, Pappelallee 35/37, 22089 Hamburg, Germany BGW – Institution for Statutory Accident Insurance and Prevention in the Health and Welfare Services, Göt...

We study in this paper a social welfare optimal congestionpricing scheme for multiclass queuing services which can be applied to telecommunication networks. Most of the literature has focused on the marginal price. Unfortunately, it does not share the total cost among the different classes. We investigate here an optimal Aumann-Shapley congestionprice which verifies this property. We extend the...

lthough health policy is only one part of welfare policy, it is a very distinguishing component of the Danish welfare system, with its massive state involvement: the state provides tax-financed, free medical care, free treatment in hospitals and sickness benefits for all permanent residents. Nearly all hospitals in Denmark are owned and run by the public, leaving only a minimal market for priva...

Employing total consumption as a household-level welfare indicator with which to measure poverty has often been criticised because it is felt that such an indicator does not account for differing access to, and cost of, publicly provided services. This paper discusses when and how adjustments can be made to expenditures derived from household surveys so as to reflect the consumption of basic se...