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Author Schuck, Peter H.

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

Imprint Washington, D.C. : Brookings Institution Press, c2006.

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Location Call No. OPAC Message Status
 Axe ProQuest E-Book  Electronic Book    ---  Available
Description x, 170 p. : ill.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (p. 137-161) and index.
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.
Reproduction Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
Subject Public welfare administration -- United States.
Human services -- Government policy -- United States.
United States -- Social policy -- 1993-
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author Zeckhauser, Richard.
ProQuest (Firm)
ISBN 0815778805 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780815778806 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780815770312 (pbk. : alk. paper)
0815770316 (pbk. : alk. paper)
9780815778790

 
    
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