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Title: A Comparison of Time Limited and Non-Time Limited Welfare Leavers in Cuyahoga County, Ohio
Creator: Neil Bania; Claudia Coulton; Nina Lalich; Toby Martin; Matt Newburn; Cara J. Pasqualone
; 10/30/2001
URL: http://hdl.handle.net/2186/ksl:2006052604
Summary: One of the aims of welfare reform legislation signed into law in 1996 was to break the cycle of welfare dependency by imposing a limit on the amount of time a person may collect benefits. In addition to the five-year lifetime limit mandated by the federal legislation, Ohio's implementation of welfare reform included a provision limiting benefits to three-years in any given five-year
period. In October 1997, the clock began ticking for those on welfare, and over four thousand individual Cuyahoga County welfare recipients who were still receiving benefits 36 months later, in October 2000, were removed from the rolls. Hundreds more left cash assistance in the months preceding the deadline, perhaps in anticipation of it, or to preserve personal safety nets for a later time of greater need.
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Title: A Neighborhood Information Capacity for Community Building, Policy Analysis and Evaluation
Creator: Neil Bania; Claudia Coulton
; 5/1/1997
URL: http://hdl.handle.net/2186/ksl:2006052615
Summary: Local communities are fundamental units of social and economic organization and stand at the interface between large-scale social forces and individual and family well being. However, information desegregated to the neighborhood level has been difficult to obtain and apply. Policy analysis has seldom been able to take into account variation in effects or conditions at the sub-county
level. Now, though, the convergence of three major trends in contemporary American society has created both the demand for and availability of information that is highly localized:
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Title: Able Bodied Adults Without Dependents in Cuyahoga County: The Impact of Food Stamp Time Limits; Center on Urban Poverty and Social Change Briefing Report
Creator: Peg Gallagher; Claudia Coulton; Curtis Proctor; Marilyn Su; Tipaporn Wonghongkul
URL: http://hdl.handle.net/2186/ksl:2006052519
Summary: In August, 1996 the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act was signed into law. The Act limited Food Stamp benefits to able bodied adults without dependents (ABAWD) to three months in a 36-month period unless they work at least 20 hours per week or participate in certain volunteer work or training programs. At the request of Cuyahoga County's Department
of Health and Nutrition, the Center on Urban Poverty and Social Change conducted a follow-up study of Cuyahoga County's ABAWDs following the introduction of a time limit on their benefits. This study was undertaken to estimate how many recipients actually met time limits and to determine how they coped with this change. For example, did the loss of benefits affect recipients' ability to obtain food, their living arrangements, health, and job seeking efforts? In addition, the study attempted to measure earnings and employment among ABAWD Food Stamp recipients. Both administrative data and survey data were used for this analysis.
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Title: Aggregation issues in neighborhood research: A comparison of census geography and resident defined neighborhoods
Creator: Claudia Coulton (creator); Thomas Cook (creator); Molly Irwin (creator)
Date: 12/23/2004
URL: http://hdl.handle.net/2186/ksl:2006052511
Summary: Measurement of neighborhood processes and attributes rests on a decision about the proper unit on which to make those measures. It is common for researchers to aggregate survey responses to some level of geography that is a proxy for neighborhood and to treat this aggregation as the neighborhood unit. This paper examines the effects of various levels and methods of aggregation
on the properties of neighborhood measures. The data come from Annie E. Casey Foundation's Making Connections survey of over 7000 households in selected neighborhoods of ten cities. This survey, among other things, queried residents about the following neighborhood attributes using five multi-item scales: Social cohesion/trust, shared expectations for informal social control, neighborhood safety, disorder and incivility, and relations with police. Individual level scale reliability is calculated for each scale using Cronbach's alpha to determine the internal consistency among the items. The majority of the scales prove to be reliable at the individual level (a >.7). Survey records were geocoded and the following levels of aggregation are compared: Entire Making Connections area, project defined sub-areas, census tracts, census block groups and the neighborhood named by residents. Variance components and reliability coefficients are calculated for five scales at each of these levels of aggregation. For most scales, smaller geographic units yield higher reliability coefficients. However, resident named neighborhoods also yield highly reliable aggregate measures. Finally, several strategies for constructing resident defined neighborhood units in surveys are illustrated, including analysis of the names residents give to their neighborhoods and resident drawn maps of their neighborhood boundaries.
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