Examining the Costs and Benefits of Family Rewards 2.0: A Conditional Cash Transfer Program in Two American Cities

Autor/inn/en	Rudd, Timothy; Rodriguez, Jonathan; Greenberg, David
Institution	MDRC
Titel	Examining the Costs and Benefits of Family Rewards 2.0: A Conditional Cash Transfer Program in Two American Cities
Quelle	(2016), (35 Seiten) PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Monographie
Schlagwörter	Rewards; Poverty; Employment; Family Programs; Program Descriptions; Program Evaluation; Incentives; Costs; Cost Effectiveness; Program Effectiveness; Expenditures; Monte Carlo Methods; Grades (Scholastic); Academic Achievement; Attendance; Graduation Rate; High School Equivalency Programs; College Entrance Examinations; Health; Job Training; New York (New York); Tennessee (Memphis) + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Reward; Belohnung; Armut; Dienstverhältnis; Family program; Familienprogramm; Programme evaluation; Programmevaluation; Anreiz; Cost; Kosten; Kosten-Nutzen-Analyse; Kosten-Nutzen-Denken; Ausgaben; Monte-Carlo-Methode; Notenspiegel; Schulleistung; Anwesenheit; Aufnahmeprüfung; Gesundheit; Berufsqualifizierender Bildungsgang
Abstract	Family Rewards was an innovative approach to poverty reduction in the United States that was modelled on the conditional cash transfer (CCT) programs common in lower- and middle-income countries. The program offered cash assistance to poor families to reduce immediate hardship, provided they met certain criteria related to family health care, children's education, and parents' work, in the hope of reducing poverty over the long term. The first version of Family Rewards was evaluated in New York City in 2007. The lessons learned from that evaluation led to the next iteration of the model ("Family Rewards 2.0"). MDRC evaluated Family Rewards 2.0 through a randomized controlled trial involving about 1,200 families in Bronx, New York, and Memphis, Tennessee, half of whom could receive the cash rewards and half of whom could not. This report presents the program's costs and the economic value of the estimated effects over four years. The findings show that the level of effort required to support participants and process rewards, as well as the value of potential impacts on targeted outcomes, are primary drivers of success for CCT programs. Conditional cash payments are more likely to produce benefits in excess of program costs for taxpayers and society when the level of effort required to administer reward payments is low and the potential value of impacts on targeted outcomes is high. [Additional support for the evaluation was provided by the Benificus Foundation, the City of Memphis, and the Women's Foundation of Greater Memphis.] (ERIC).
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Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2020/1/01