Browsing La Follette Working Papers by Author "Heinrich, Carolyn J."
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Creaming-Skimming, Parking and Other Intended and Unintended Effects of Performance-Based Contracting in Social Welfare Services
Koning, Pierre; Heinrich, Carolyn J. (2010-09)The authors' analysis finds that government-contracted private providers of job placement services in the Netherlands tend to focus on helping clients who are the easiest to place, a practice known as cream-skimming, when ... -
The Design and Dynamics of Performance Measurement Systems in the Public Sector
Heinrich, Carolyn J.; Marschke, Gerald R. (2008)The authors use the principal-agent framework to synthesize theoretical and empirical knowledge of the implementation of performance management systems in the public sector. They describe a dynamic framework to account ... -
Does Community Participation Produce Dividends in Social Investment Fund Projects?
Heinrich, Carolyn J.; Lopez, Yeri (2007)In a study of education projects in Honduras, the authors investigate whether participatory, community-driven approaches to social investment fund projects improve educational outcomes and community members’ perceptions ... -
Does Debt Discourage Employment and Payment of Child Support? Evidence from a Natural Experiment
Cancian, Maria; Heinrich, Carolyn J.; Chung, Yiyoon (2009)The authors find an inverse relationship between child support debt and a father's earnings and child support payments. Higher arrears are generally associated with lower payments and lower earnings for fathers, although ... -
How Credible is the Evidence, and Does It Matter? An Analysis of the Program Assessment Rating Tool
Heinrich, Carolyn J. (2010-09)This study empirically examines the quality of evidence that agencies provided to the Office of Management and Budget in assessments using the Program Assessment Rating Tool (PART), which was introduced in 2002 to strengthen ... -
Improving Education and Employment for Disadvantaged Young Men: Proven and Promising Strategies
Heinrich, Carolyn J.; Holzer, Harry J. (2010-09)The authors review the evidence based on youth development policies for adolescents, programs seeking to improve educational attainment and employment for in-school youth, and programs that try to "reconnect" those who are ... -
New Estimates of Public Employment and Training Program Net Impacts: A Nonexperimental Evaluation of the Workforce Investment Act Program
Heinrich, Carolyn J.; Mueser, Peter R.; Troske, Kenneth R.; Jeon, Kyung-Seong; Kahvecioglu, Daver C. (2009)Two federal job training programs for adults lead to higher wages in the long run. People with poor work histories who enrolled in training through the Workforce Investment Act's Adult Program initially had lower wages, ... -
One Standard Fits All? The Pros and Cons of Performance Standard Adjustments
Barnow, Burt S.; Heinrich, Carolyn J. (2008)Public performance measurement systems rarely use formal performance standards adjustment procedures. After weighing the pros and cons and describing processes, the authors recommend how public sector performance measurement ... -
Reducing Child Support Debt and Its Consequences: Can Forgiveness Benefit All?
Heinrich, Carolyn J.; Burkhardt, Brett C.; Shager, Hilary M. (2010-09)This evaluation of a demonstration program that targeted noncustodial parents with high levels of unpaid child support debt and offered them incentives to become regular payers finds that participants paid more toward their ... -
Supplemental Education Services under No Child Left Behind: Who Signs Up, and What Do They Gain?
Heinrich, Carolyn J.; Meyer, Robert H.; Whitten, Gregory (2009)A federally mandated and funded tutoring program in Milwaukee Public Schools is not necessarily reaching the people who need the help the most, nor is it effective in increasing student achievement. The authors integrate ... -
Temporary Help Work: Multiple Job-Holding and Compensating Differentials
Hamersma, Sarah; Heinrich, Carolyn J. (2010-09)The authors use a compilation of administrative data to examine hourly wages, total hours of work, and quarterly earnings to investigate whether temporary help service (THS) jobs pay a compensating differential (or wage ... -
Third-Party Governance under No Child Left Behind: Accountability and Performance Management Challenges
Heinrich, Carolyn J. (2009)This study explores how the Milwaukee public school district manages the organizations that provide tutoring and other supplemental educational services required under the federal No Child Left Behind Act. It also examines ...