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Data and Methodological Issues for Tracking Former Welfare Recipients A Workshop Summary (1999) / Chapter Skim
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Populations of Interest
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... Measures of local labor market conditions, juvenile arrest rates, and teenage pregnancy rates could be important control variables in an analysis of the outcomes of former recipients and their children. POPULATIONS OF INTEREST The multifaceted changes in social welfare programs raise many questions about who the changes affect and how they are affected.
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