Targeting in social programs : avoiding bad bets, removing bad apples / Peter H. Schuck, Richard J. Zeckhauser.
2006
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Targeting in social programs : avoiding bad bets, removing bad apples / Peter H. Schuck, Richard J. Zeckhauser.
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Washington, D.C. : Brookings Institution Press, [2006]
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©2006
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x, 170 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
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 (pages 137-161) and index.
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English
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Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2008. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.
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0815778805 cloth alkaline paper
9780815778806 cloth alkaline paper
9780815770312 paperback alkaline paper
0815770316 paperback alkaline paper
9780815778790
9780815778806 cloth alkaline paper
9780815770312 paperback alkaline paper
0815770316 paperback alkaline paper
9780815778790
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