Michael J Camasso
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 172949 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Michael J Camasso |
| NOMBRES | Michael J |
| APELLIDO | Camasso |
| FIRMA | CAMASSO M J |
| AFILIACIONES | Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey |
| VERIFICADO | No |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 25 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 73 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 25 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1986 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 5 |
A multi-generational test of the conceptually guided, cultural metaphor in six capitalist democracies
Covid-19 and Parenting Challenges with Food Insecurity and Educational Vulnerability
Growing up poor but doing well
Conceptualizing and testing the vicious cycle in child protective services
Social outrage and organizational behavior
The Future of the Family Cap
Family caps are the one welfare reform explicitly designed to reduce birth rates among poor, unmarried women. These policies generate a great deal of controversy due to the groups of women they target, the mechanisms through which they operate, and the effects they purport to produce. This article presents results from a national study with 18 years of post–family cap data. We find that family caps reduce nonmarital births by about 2 per 1,000 an…
Protecting Children in the Age of Outrage
This book proposes what, to many professionals in the child welfare field, will appear a radically different explanation for society's decisions to protect children from harm and for the significant drop in substantiated child abuse numbers. At the center of this conceptual and analytic approach is the contention that social outrage emanating from horrific and often sensationalized cases of child maltreatment plays a major role in CPS decision ma…
The crucial role played by social outrage in efforts to reform child protective services
University-community partnering using a targeted mutual-interests approach
In this paper, we describe a six-year effort to create a university-community partnership in a disadvantaged neighborhood bordering Rutgers University in New Brunswick, New Jersey. We discuss the traditional community research and development (TCR&D) model employed by universities and how assumptions made by the university about the capacities of community brokering agents can significantly influence both the time and trajectory of partnership bu…
The Price Effects of Family Caps on Fertility Decisions of Poor Women
Family Caps have been a popular welfare reform policy designed to discourage women on welfare from bearing additional children. It has been thought that the principal mechanism through which a Cap achieves its objective of lower birth rates is the financial pressure placed on women by the denial of cash benefits. Our study uses instrumental variables Probit modeling to directly measure the contribution that price makes to Cap impact on births. We…
Experimental evidence of welfare reform impact on clinical anxiety and depression levels among poor women
How Family Caps Work
Many experts consider family caps to be the one welfare reform explicitly designed to reduce birth rates among poor unmarried women. Despite the operation of such caps in 23 states, research reports mixed findings on the policy’s effectiveness in reducing nonmarital births. This article presents results from a national study in which family caps were found to affect fertility behavior, but this effect was conditioned by a state’s willingness to u…
Beyond Intention to Treat Analysis in Welfare-to-Work Studies
Using a sample of 2072 women who participated in New Jersey's Family Development Program experiment during 1992–1996, we compare three welfare-to-work strategieslabor force attachment (LFA), human capital investment (HCI), and a mixed strategyemploying traditional effectiveness analysis within an experimental design and an efficacy approach which controls for selective participation by experimental and control subjects. Controlling for selective …
Welfare Reform and Child Fostering
Objective. The objective of our research is to examine the impact of New Jersey's welfare reform called the Family Development Program (FDP) on child fostering among children on welfare. Methods. The research and analytical methods we use include an experimental design and probit regressions. Results. Our results show that FDP impacts are confined to children of short‐term welfare recipients (new cases) but affects both African‐American and white…
Do Family Caps on Welfare Affect Births Among Welfare Recipients? Reconciling Efficacy and Effectiveness Estimates of Impact through a Blended Design Strategy
This paper proposes a blended experimental and quasi-experimental research strategy which we believe will help improve the external validity of evaluations of welfare reform and other social policies. We draw upon data from New Jersey’s imposition of a family cap, where welfare benefits instead of increasing remained the same for women who conceive and bear a child while on public assistance. We directly compare estimates of the policy’s effectiv…
The use of client surveys to gauge the threat of contamination in welfare reform experiments
This paper examines the type of evidence policy analysts have used to identify the presence and magnitude of contamination in welfare reform experiments. Peter Rossi's critique of the New Jersey Family Development Program evaluation motivates the following discussion. In this critique Rossi and others contend that client misperception about experimental control‐group assignment resulted in contamination that negates reported treatment effectivene…
Family Cap and Nonmarital Fertility
Using an experimental design, this research examines the effect of the nation's first family cap on the births, abortions, and contraception use of over 8,000 women receiving public assistance in New Jersey. The family cap denies additional cash benefits to children conceived while the mother is receiving public assistance. Our research shows that a targeted welfare benefit manipulation does influence fertility behavior; however, the effect is co…
Modeling the reliability and predictive validity of risk assessment in child protective services
Evaluating Welfare Reform Waivers Under Section 1115
Beginning in 1962, Section 1115 of the Social Security Act allowed the U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services to waive specific provisions of the act within individual states, allowing them to implement welfare experiments or demonstration projects to reduce welfare recipiency, ease transitions into the labor market for welfare clients, or otherwise advance the objectives of the Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC) program. The per…
Prediction accuracy of the Washington and Illinois risk assessment instruments
In recent years many child protective services (CPS) agencies have used structured risk assessment to streamline and rationalize case identification and management in a resource-depleted environment. Empirical evidence of risk assessment's capacity to predict child maltreatment has been limited to tests of single instruments. This article compares the predictive performances of the Illinois CANTS 17B and the Washington State Risk Matrix on a samp…
Practitioner productivity and the product content of medical care in publicly supported health centers
Parental preferences and considerations of cost in the selection of school-age child care
The Willingness to Change to Formalized Child Care Arrangements
Michael J. Camasso, Susan E. Roche, The Willingness to Change to Formalized Child Care Arrangements: Parental Considerations of Cost and Quality, Journal of Marriage and Family, Vol. 53, No. 4 (Nov., 1991), pp. 1071-1082
Severe Child Maltreatment in Ecological Perspective
Social workers and other human service professionals who practice in the energy-development "boomtowns' of the western United States report dramatic increases in the abuse and neglect of children. The comparative research to-date however has given little attention to the ecological processes that precede these increases. This study uses a pooled cross-sectional time-series design to estimate the effects of various aspects of energy development on…
Social Supports, Undesirable Life Events, and Psychological Distress in a Disadvantaged Population
One of the more consistent findings in community mental health research has been the inverse relationship between socioeconomic status and psychological distress. This study examines two processes that are believed to account for this relationship: undesirable life events and social supports. The findings indicate that undesirable life events contribute positively to levels of anxiety and depression, whereas social supports protect against these …
Modeling the reliability and predictive validity of risk assessment in child protective services
Family Cap and Nonmarital Fertility
Using an experimental design, this research examines the effect of the nation's first family cap on the births, abortions, and contraception use of over 8,000 women receiving public assistance in New Jersey. The family cap denies additional cash benefits to children conceived while the mother is receiving public assistance. Our research shows that a targeted welfare benefit manipulation does influence fertility behavior; however, the effect is co…
Evaluating Welfare Reform Waivers Under Section 1115
Beginning in 1962, Section 1115 of the Social Security Act allowed the U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services to waive specific provisions of the act within individual states, allowing them to implement welfare experiments or demonstration projects to reduce welfare recipiency, ease transitions into the labor market for welfare clients, or otherwise advance the objectives of the Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC) program. The per…
The use of client surveys to gauge the threat of contamination in welfare reform experiments
This paper examines the type of evidence policy analysts have used to identify the presence and magnitude of contamination in welfare reform experiments. Peter Rossi's critique of the New Jersey Family Development Program evaluation motivates the following discussion. In this critique Rossi and others contend that client misperception about experimental control‐group assignment resulted in contamination that negates reported treatment effectivene…
University-community partnering using a targeted mutual-interests approach
In this paper, we describe a six-year effort to create a university-community partnership in a disadvantaged neighborhood bordering Rutgers University in New Brunswick, New Jersey. We discuss the traditional community research and development (TCR&D) model employed by universities and how assumptions made by the university about the capacities of community brokering agents can significantly influence both the time and trajectory of partnership bu…
Prediction accuracy of the Washington and Illinois risk assessment instruments
In recent years many child protective services (CPS) agencies have used structured risk assessment to streamline and rationalize case identification and management in a resource-depleted environment. Empirical evidence of risk assessment's capacity to predict child maltreatment has been limited to tests of single instruments. This article compares the predictive performances of the Illinois CANTS 17B and the Washington State Risk Matrix on a samp…
The Willingness to Change to Formalized Child Care Arrangements
Michael J. Camasso, Susan E. Roche, The Willingness to Change to Formalized Child Care Arrangements: Parental Considerations of Cost and Quality, Journal of Marriage and Family, Vol. 53, No. 4 (Nov., 1991), pp. 1071-1082
Severe Child Maltreatment in Ecological Perspective
Social workers and other human service professionals who practice in the energy-development "boomtowns' of the western United States report dramatic increases in the abuse and neglect of children. The comparative research to-date however has given little attention to the ecological processes that precede these increases. This study uses a pooled cross-sectional time-series design to estimate the effects of various aspects of energy development on…
The crucial role played by social outrage in efforts to reform child protective services
How Family Caps Work
Many experts consider family caps to be the one welfare reform explicitly designed to reduce birth rates among poor unmarried women. Despite the operation of such caps in 23 states, research reports mixed findings on the policy’s effectiveness in reducing nonmarital births. This article presents results from a national study in which family caps were found to affect fertility behavior, but this effect was conditioned by a state’s willingness to u…
The Future of the Family Cap
Family caps are the one welfare reform explicitly designed to reduce birth rates among poor, unmarried women. These policies generate a great deal of controversy due to the groups of women they target, the mechanisms through which they operate, and the effects they purport to produce. This article presents results from a national study with 18 years of post–family cap data. We find that family caps reduce nonmarital births by about 2 per 1,000 an…
Do Family Caps on Welfare Affect Births Among Welfare Recipients? Reconciling Efficacy and Effectiveness Estimates of Impact through a Blended Design Strategy
This paper proposes a blended experimental and quasi-experimental research strategy which we believe will help improve the external validity of evaluations of welfare reform and other social policies. We draw upon data from New Jersey’s imposition of a family cap, where welfare benefits instead of increasing remained the same for women who conceive and bear a child while on public assistance. We directly compare estimates of the policy’s effectiv…
Practitioner productivity and the product content of medical care in publicly supported health centers
Social outrage and organizational behavior
The Price Effects of Family Caps on Fertility Decisions of Poor Women
Family Caps have been a popular welfare reform policy designed to discourage women on welfare from bearing additional children. It has been thought that the principal mechanism through which a Cap achieves its objective of lower birth rates is the financial pressure placed on women by the denial of cash benefits. Our study uses instrumental variables Probit modeling to directly measure the contribution that price makes to Cap impact on births. We…
Experimental evidence of welfare reform impact on clinical anxiety and depression levels among poor women
Social Supports, Undesirable Life Events, and Psychological Distress in a Disadvantaged Population
One of the more consistent findings in community mental health research has been the inverse relationship between socioeconomic status and psychological distress. This study examines two processes that are believed to account for this relationship: undesirable life events and social supports. The findings indicate that undesirable life events contribute positively to levels of anxiety and depression, whereas social supports protect against these …
Social Supports, Undesirable Life Events, and Psychological Distress in a Disadvantaged Population
One of the more consistent findings in community mental health research has been the inverse relationship between socioeconomic status and psychological distress. This study examines two processes that are believed to account for this relationship: undesirable life events and social supports. The findings indicate that undesirable life events contribute positively to levels of anxiety and depression, whereas social supports protect against these …
Severe Child Maltreatment in Ecological Perspective
Social workers and other human service professionals who practice in the energy-development "boomtowns' of the western United States report dramatic increases in the abuse and neglect of children. The comparative research to-date however has given little attention to the ecological processes that precede these increases. This study uses a pooled cross-sectional time-series design to estimate the effects of various aspects of energy development on…
The Willingness to Change to Formalized Child Care Arrangements
Michael J. Camasso, Susan E. Roche, The Willingness to Change to Formalized Child Care Arrangements: Parental Considerations of Cost and Quality, Journal of Marriage and Family, Vol. 53, No. 4 (Nov., 1991), pp. 1071-1082
Parental preferences and considerations of cost in the selection of school-age child care
Practitioner productivity and the product content of medical care in publicly supported health centers
Prediction accuracy of the Washington and Illinois risk assessment instruments
In recent years many child protective services (CPS) agencies have used structured risk assessment to streamline and rationalize case identification and management in a resource-depleted environment. Empirical evidence of risk assessment's capacity to predict child maltreatment has been limited to tests of single instruments. This article compares the predictive performances of the Illinois CANTS 17B and the Washington State Risk Matrix on a samp…
Modeling the reliability and predictive validity of risk assessment in child protective services
Evaluating Welfare Reform Waivers Under Section 1115
Beginning in 1962, Section 1115 of the Social Security Act allowed the U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services to waive specific provisions of the act within individual states, allowing them to implement welfare experiments or demonstration projects to reduce welfare recipiency, ease transitions into the labor market for welfare clients, or otherwise advance the objectives of the Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC) program. The per…
The use of client surveys to gauge the threat of contamination in welfare reform experiments
This paper examines the type of evidence policy analysts have used to identify the presence and magnitude of contamination in welfare reform experiments. Peter Rossi's critique of the New Jersey Family Development Program evaluation motivates the following discussion. In this critique Rossi and others contend that client misperception about experimental control‐group assignment resulted in contamination that negates reported treatment effectivene…
Family Cap and Nonmarital Fertility
Using an experimental design, this research examines the effect of the nation's first family cap on the births, abortions, and contraception use of over 8,000 women receiving public assistance in New Jersey. The family cap denies additional cash benefits to children conceived while the mother is receiving public assistance. Our research shows that a targeted welfare benefit manipulation does influence fertility behavior; however, the effect is co…
Do Family Caps on Welfare Affect Births Among Welfare Recipients? Reconciling Efficacy and Effectiveness Estimates of Impact through a Blended Design Strategy
This paper proposes a blended experimental and quasi-experimental research strategy which we believe will help improve the external validity of evaluations of welfare reform and other social policies. We draw upon data from New Jersey’s imposition of a family cap, where welfare benefits instead of increasing remained the same for women who conceive and bear a child while on public assistance. We directly compare estimates of the policy’s effectiv…
Beyond Intention to Treat Analysis in Welfare-to-Work Studies
Using a sample of 2072 women who participated in New Jersey's Family Development Program experiment during 1992–1996, we compare three welfare-to-work strategieslabor force attachment (LFA), human capital investment (HCI), and a mixed strategyemploying traditional effectiveness analysis within an experimental design and an efficacy approach which controls for selective participation by experimental and control subjects. Controlling for selective …
Welfare Reform and Child Fostering
Objective. The objective of our research is to examine the impact of New Jersey's welfare reform called the Family Development Program (FDP) on child fostering among children on welfare. Methods. The research and analytical methods we use include an experimental design and probit regressions. Results. Our results show that FDP impacts are confined to children of short‐term welfare recipients (new cases) but affects both African‐American and white…
How Family Caps Work
Many experts consider family caps to be the one welfare reform explicitly designed to reduce birth rates among poor unmarried women. Despite the operation of such caps in 23 states, research reports mixed findings on the policy’s effectiveness in reducing nonmarital births. This article presents results from a national study in which family caps were found to affect fertility behavior, but this effect was conditioned by a state’s willingness to u…
The Price Effects of Family Caps on Fertility Decisions of Poor Women
Family Caps have been a popular welfare reform policy designed to discourage women on welfare from bearing additional children. It has been thought that the principal mechanism through which a Cap achieves its objective of lower birth rates is the financial pressure placed on women by the denial of cash benefits. Our study uses instrumental variables Probit modeling to directly measure the contribution that price makes to Cap impact on births. We…
Experimental evidence of welfare reform impact on clinical anxiety and depression levels among poor women
The crucial role played by social outrage in efforts to reform child protective services
University-community partnering using a targeted mutual-interests approach
In this paper, we describe a six-year effort to create a university-community partnership in a disadvantaged neighborhood bordering Rutgers University in New Brunswick, New Jersey. We discuss the traditional community research and development (TCR&D) model employed by universities and how assumptions made by the university about the capacities of community brokering agents can significantly influence both the time and trajectory of partnership bu…
Protecting Children in the Age of Outrage
This book proposes what, to many professionals in the child welfare field, will appear a radically different explanation for society's decisions to protect children from harm and for the significant drop in substantiated child abuse numbers. At the center of this conceptual and analytic approach is the contention that social outrage emanating from horrific and often sensationalized cases of child maltreatment plays a major role in CPS decision ma…
The Future of the Family Cap
Family caps are the one welfare reform explicitly designed to reduce birth rates among poor, unmarried women. These policies generate a great deal of controversy due to the groups of women they target, the mechanisms through which they operate, and the effects they purport to produce. This article presents results from a national study with 18 years of post–family cap data. We find that family caps reduce nonmarital births by about 2 per 1,000 an…
Social outrage and organizational behavior
Conceptualizing and testing the vicious cycle in child protective services
Growing up poor but doing well
Covid-19 and Parenting Challenges with Food Insecurity and Educational Vulnerability
A multi-generational test of the conceptually guided, cultural metaphor in six capitalist democracies
Psychology (20 obras) · Economics (18 obras) · Medicine (15 obras) · Gender, Labor, and Family Dynamics (12 obras) · Political science (12 obras) · Welfare (12 obras) · Sociology (11 obras) · Demographic economics (9 obras) · Psychiatry (9 obras) · Economic growth (8 obras)