Investing in the disadvantaged
Subtitle: assessing the benefits and costs of social policies
By: David L. Weimer and Aidan R. Vining, editors.
Contributors: Weimer, David Leo.; Vining, Aidan R.
Series: American governance and public policy series
Publisher: Georgetown University Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Washington, D.C
Language: eng
Number of pages: 288
ISBN-13: 9781589012578
Subjects: People with social disabilities -- Services for -- United States -- Cost effectiveness; United States -- Social policy -- 1993- -- Cost effectiveness
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Social policy and cost-benefit analysis / Aidan R. Vining and David L. Weimer; title: Early childhood interventions and cost-benefit and cost-effectiveness analyses / Barbara Wolfe and Nathan Tefft; title: Guiding human capital investments in elementary and secondary school with cost-benefit analysis / Clive R. Belfield; title: Health care for disadvantaged populations : the role of cost-benefit and cost-effectiveness analysis / David J. Vanness; title: Socially desirable programs/interventions for adults with serious mental illnesses and needs for cost-benefit and cost-effectiveness studies / Mark S. Salzer; title: Cost-benefit analyses of investments to control illicit substance abuse and addiction / Jonathan P. Caulkins; title: Promising areas for new research on the economic effects of juvenile crime interventions / Jeffrey A. Butts and John K. Roman; title: Prisoner reentry programming : opportunities for economic analysis / John K. Roman and Christy Visher; title: Cost-benefit analyses of using housing assistance to promote human capital : a conceptualization and review of the evidence / Lance Freeman; title: Policies, programs, and demonstrations to encourage work : what are productive next steps? / Robert Lerman; title: Next steps in welfare-to-work / Michael Wiseman; title: Cba of welfare-to-work interventions / David Greenberg; title: Overview of the state-of-the-art of cba in social policy / Aidan R. Vining and David L. Weimer; title: Agenda for promoting and improving the use of cba in social policy / David L. Weimer and Aidan R. Vining.