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

Title
  1. Targeting in social programs : avoiding bad bets, removing bad apples / Peter H. Schuck, Richard J. Zeckhauser.
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  1. Washington, D.C. : Brookings Institution Press, c2006.
Author
  1. Schuck, Peter H.

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Additional authors
  1. Zeckhauser, Richard.
Description
  1. x, 170 p. : ill.; 24 cm.
Summary
  1. "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.
Uniform title
  1. Project Muse UPCC books
Subject
  1. Since 1993
  2. Public welfare administration > United States
  3. Human services > Government policy > United States
  4. United States > Social policy > 1993-
Contents
  1. Introduction -- Conceptual foundations of target efficiency -- High stakes, misguided evasions, and bad policies -- Avoiding bad bets -- Removing bad apples -- Predictive accuracy and procedural protection -- Better information, better targeting, and better policies.
Owning institution
  1. Harvard Library
Bibliography (note)
  1. Includes bibliographical references (p. 137-161) and index.
Processing action (note)
  1. committed to retain