Targeting in social programs [electronic resource] : avoiding bad bets, removing bad apples / Peter H. Schuck, Richard J. Zeckhauser.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: Washington, D.C. : Brookings Institution Press, c2006.Description: x, 170 p. : illSubject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 361.6/120973 22
LOC classification:
  • HV95 .S38 2006eb
Online resources: 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.

"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.

Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2013. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.

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