Jacob Alex Klerman

Rand Corporation

United States. Department of Defense. Office of the Secretary of Defense

M. Rebecca Kilburn

Arroyo Center

National Defense Research Institute (U.S.)

Lawrence M. Hanser

This is the first report of a two-part project that estimates the determinants of individual enlistment decisions using the 1992 and 1994 wave of the National Educational Longitudinal Study (NELS).

Estimating AFQT Scores for National Education Longitudinal Study (NELS) Respondents

Joe Hotz

Elaine Reardon

Amy G. Cox

Donna O. Farley

Examines the effects of the California Work Opportunity and Responsibility to Kids (CalWORKs) program on work activity participation rates of welfare recipients, welfare caseloads, and outcomes for welfare leavers. While the CalWORKs reforms appear to have been responsible for some of the uniform improvement in outcomes shown by the analysis, the robust economy and other policy changes were probably also important.

Early Results from the Impact Analysis

Welfare Reform in California

David S. Loughran

Craig W. Martin

Reports estimates of the effect of activation on the earnings of reservists and finds that earnings loss attributable to activation is less common than that suggested by survey-based analyses. However, the substantial earnings gains most reservists experience might not be sufficient to compensate reservists for the hardship of activation.

Activation and the Earnings of Reservists

P. Jane McClure Burstain

The California Department of Social Services asked RAND to study the state's policy for sanctioning welfare program participants who do not comply with statutory requirements of the welfare-to-work program. Researchers found that sanctions were weak in practice and that caseworkers were reluctant to sanction clients. Making sanction swifter, stronger, and safer are possible directions for reforming sanction policy and practice.

Sanctions in the CalWORKS Program

This report presents tabulations of the interrelationship between health insurance coverage for children and parental employment, using data from the Survey of Income and Program Participation, a longitudinal survey conducted by the Census Bureau.

Health Insurance Among Children of Unemployed Parents

Jacob Alex Klerman

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