Targeting in social programs : avoiding bad bets, removing bad apples /

"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 t...

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Bibliografische gegevens
Hoofdauteurs: Schuck, Peter H. (Auteur), Zeckhauser, Richard (Auteur)
Formaat: Licensed eBooks
Taal:Engels
Gepubliceerd in: Washington, D.C. : Brookings Institution Press ©2006.
Online toegang:https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.7864/j.ctt6wpfv1
Inhoudsopgave:
  • 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.