APPENDIX 6A Sources of Data on Impacts of Welfare-Related Demonstrations on Fertility Behavior of Teenage Parents

ProgramSource(s) of Information on the Research Findings
Job StartCave, G., H. Bos, F. Doolittle, and C. Toussaint. October. ''JOB START: Final report on a program for school dropouts." New York: Manpower Demonstration Research Corporation, 1993.
New ChanceQuint, J., D. Polit, H. Bos, and G. Cave. "New Chance: Interim findings on a comprehensive program for disadvantaged young mothers and their children." New York: Manpower Demonstration Research Corporation, June 1994.
Project RedirectionPolit, D. and C. White. "The lives of young, disadvantaged mothers: the five year follow-up of the Project Redirection Sample." Saratoga Springs, NY: Humanalysis, Inc., May 1988.
Ohio LearnfareLong, D., J. Gueron, R. Wood, R. Fisher, and V. Fellerath. "LEAP: Three-year impacts of Ohio's welfare initiative to improve school attendance among teenage parents." New York: Manpower Demonstration Research Corporation, 1996.
Bloom, D., V. Fellerath, D. Long, and R. Wood. "LEAP: Interim findings on a welfare initiative to improve school attendance among teenage parents: Ohio's Learning, Earning, and Parenting Program." New York: Manpower Demonstration Research Corporation, May 1993.
Teen Parent Welfare DemonstrationMaynard, R. (ed.). "Building self-sufficiency among welfare-dependent teenage parents." Princeton, N.J.: Mathematica Policy Research, Inc., June 1993.
Maynard, R., W. Nicholson, and A. Rangarajan. "Breaking the cycle of poverty: The effectiveness of mandatory services for welfare-dependent teenage parents." Princeton, N.J.: Mathematica Policy Research, Inc., December 1993.
Hershey, A., and M. Silverberg. "Program cost of the teenage parent demonstration." Princeton, N.J.: Mathematica Policy Research, Inc., 1993.
Maynard, R. and A. Rangarajan. "Contraceptive use and repeat pregnancies among welfare-dependent teenage mothers." Family Planning Perspectives Vol. 26(5):198–205.
Teen Parent Health Care ProgramO'Sullivan, A., and B. Jacobsen. "A randomized trial of a health care program for first-time adolescent mothers and their infants." Nursing Research Vol. 41(4):210–215.
Elmira Nurse Home Visiting ProgramOlds, D., C.S. Henderson, R. Tatelbaum, and R. Chamberlin. "Improving the life-course development of socially disadvantaged mothers: A randomized trial of nurse home visitation." American Journal of Public Health, Vol. 78(11):1436–1445.

From: 6, Changing Family Formation Behavior Through Welfare Reform

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Welfare, The Family, And Reproductive Behavior: Research Perspectives.
National Research Council (US) Committee on Population; Moffitt RA, editor.
Washington (DC): National Academies Press (US); 1998.
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