Robert G Wood
Biographic Data
| ID | 173065 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Robert G Wood |
| GIVEN NAMES | Robert G |
| FAMILY NAME | Wood |
| SIGNATURE | WOOD R G |
| AFFILIATIONS | Mathematica Policy Research |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1390-4020 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 18 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 100 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 18 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1982 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Impacts of healthy marriage and relationship education for expectant and new mothers
Impacts of healthy marriage and relationship education with integrated economic stability services
The Impact of a Home Visiting Program Enhanced to Address Repeat Adolescent Pregnancy—A Randomized Controlled Trial of Steps to Success
Do Carrots Work Better than Sticks? Results from the National Child Support Noncustodial Parent Employment Demonstration
Most children in the United States will spend at least part of their childhood living apart from one of their parents; the child support system is designed to ensure that they nonetheless receive financial support. While the system is largely effective when noncustodial parents have substantial regular earnings, many noncustodial parents, including a disproportionate share of those whose children live in poverty, have limited earnings and ability…
Executive Summaries
Volatility in capital markets -or in social conditions -may cause a deluge of ad hoc payout discussions. This article constructs a metric using equity and bond market yields as a quantitative leading indicator of when a payout-rate discussion may be warranted. While this methodology might be more of a resource to university-affiliated or public foundations, which have complete discretion over the level of the payout rate, private foundations migh…
Executive Summaries
Participatory grantmaking is increasingly being seen as an approach to philanthropy that can shift power dynamics. This article addresses whether changing the decision-making process in addition to changing the decision-makers has an effect on how grants are allocated. It examines the design of two grant review processes -one based on popular voting, the other a more traditional rubric approach -and compares their outcomes to learn whether a more…
Species abundance and temporal variation of arbovirus vectors in Brownsville, Texas
The recent outbreaks of the dengue fever and West Nile viruses and the looming threats of the Zika and chikungunya viruses highlight the importance of establishing effective, proactive arboviral surveillance in communities at high risk of transmission, such as those on the Texas–Mexico border. Currently, there are no approved human vaccines available for these mosquito-borne diseases, so entomological control and case management are the only know…
The Long-Term Effects of Building Strong Families: A Program for Unmarried Parents
The authors present findings from a large-scale, random-assignment evaluation of Building Strong Families (BSF), a program offering group sessions on relationship skills education to low-income, unmarried parents who were expecting or had recently had a baby. Findings based on a 3-year follow-up survey of over 4,000 couples indicate that BSF did not succeed in its central objectives of improving the couple relationship, increasing the quality of …
The Effects of Building Strong Families: A Healthy Marriage and Relationship Skills Education Program for Unmarried Parents
This article examines the impacts of B uilding S trong F amilies, a healthy marriage and relationship skills education program serving unmarried parents who were expecting or had recently had a baby. Based on a random assignment research design, the analysis uses survey data from more than 4,700 couples across eight research sites to estimate program effects. Results varied across sites, with one site having a pattern of positive effects (but no …
The Dynamics of Women Disconnected from Employment and Welfare
This study analyzes factors associated with transitions into and out of disconnectedness, which is defined as being disconnected from the labor market, welfare, and other substantial financial supports
Proximity to point sources of environmental mercury release as a predictor of autism prevalence
Two Steps Forward, One Step Back: The Uneven Economic Progress of Tanf Recipients
This study investigates the long‐term economic gains of current and former TANF recipients and explores the extent to which these recipients experience steady economic progress. Results suggest that recipients generally show economic progress but that there is considerable instability and heterogeneity of experience. Employment insecurity and poverty cycling are common even among the least disadvantaged TANF recipients and are particularly preval…
"Comments on Peter Eisinger's "City Politics in an Era of Federal Devolution
Encouraging school enrollment and attendance among teenage parents on welfare: Early impacts of Ohio's Leap program
Pay Differences among the Highly Paid: The Male-Female Earnings Gap in Lawyers' Salaries
This article uses very detailed information on graduates of the University of Michigan Law School to examine male-female pay differences in that population. Men and women in this population have virtually identical human capital on graduation from law school, allowing us to examine carefully the different impact of children and work history on men's and women's careers and earnings. Taking time from work in order to care for children reduces wage…
Bridging the Gap: Political Scientists on the Public Merry-Go-Round
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Have National Assessments made us any Wiser about ‘Standards
(1984). Have National Assessments made us any Wiser about ‘Standards'? Comparative Education: Vol. 20, No. 3, pp. 307-321
Professionals at Bay: Managing Boston's Public Schools
Boston's public schools have long drawn national attention in educational and political studies and more recently in legal accounts of desegregation. With the rise of remedial law, the maturation of public unions, and the improvement of constituencies-all forces flowering in the 1970s-the traditional concept of organizational rationality has been effectively undermined for professionals in the school system. Problem-solving skills and professiona…
The Long-Term Effects of Building Strong Families: A Program for Unmarried Parents
The authors present findings from a large-scale, random-assignment evaluation of Building Strong Families (BSF), a program offering group sessions on relationship skills education to low-income, unmarried parents who were expecting or had recently had a baby. Findings based on a 3-year follow-up survey of over 4,000 couples indicate that BSF did not succeed in its central objectives of improving the couple relationship, increasing the quality of …
The Effects of Building Strong Families: A Healthy Marriage and Relationship Skills Education Program for Unmarried Parents
This article examines the impacts of B uilding S trong F amilies, a healthy marriage and relationship skills education program serving unmarried parents who were expecting or had recently had a baby. Based on a random assignment research design, the analysis uses survey data from more than 4,700 couples across eight research sites to estimate program effects. Results varied across sites, with one site having a pattern of positive effects (but no …
Two Steps Forward, One Step Back: The Uneven Economic Progress of Tanf Recipients
This study investigates the long‐term economic gains of current and former TANF recipients and explores the extent to which these recipients experience steady economic progress. Results suggest that recipients generally show economic progress but that there is considerable instability and heterogeneity of experience. Employment insecurity and poverty cycling are common even among the least disadvantaged TANF recipients and are particularly preval…
The Dynamics of Women Disconnected from Employment and Welfare
This study analyzes factors associated with transitions into and out of disconnectedness, which is defined as being disconnected from the labor market, welfare, and other substantial financial supports
Do Carrots Work Better than Sticks? Results from the National Child Support Noncustodial Parent Employment Demonstration
Most children in the United States will spend at least part of their childhood living apart from one of their parents; the child support system is designed to ensure that they nonetheless receive financial support. While the system is largely effective when noncustodial parents have substantial regular earnings, many noncustodial parents, including a disproportionate share of those whose children live in poverty, have limited earnings and ability…
Encouraging school enrollment and attendance among teenage parents on welfare: Early impacts of Ohio's Leap program
Professionals at Bay: Managing Boston's Public Schools
Boston's public schools have long drawn national attention in educational and political studies and more recently in legal accounts of desegregation. With the rise of remedial law, the maturation of public unions, and the improvement of constituencies-all forces flowering in the 1970s-the traditional concept of organizational rationality has been effectively undermined for professionals in the school system. Problem-solving skills and professiona…
Proximity to point sources of environmental mercury release as a predictor of autism prevalence
Professionals at Bay: Managing Boston's Public Schools
Boston's public schools have long drawn national attention in educational and political studies and more recently in legal accounts of desegregation. With the rise of remedial law, the maturation of public unions, and the improvement of constituencies-all forces flowering in the 1970s-the traditional concept of organizational rationality has been effectively undermined for professionals in the school system. Problem-solving skills and professiona…
Have National Assessments made us any Wiser about ‘Standards
(1984). Have National Assessments made us any Wiser about ‘Standards'? Comparative Education: Vol. 20, No. 3, pp. 307-321
Bridging the Gap: Political Scientists on the Public Merry-Go-Round
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Pay Differences among the Highly Paid: The Male-Female Earnings Gap in Lawyers' Salaries
This article uses very detailed information on graduates of the University of Michigan Law School to examine male-female pay differences in that population. Men and women in this population have virtually identical human capital on graduation from law school, allowing us to examine carefully the different impact of children and work history on men's and women's careers and earnings. Taking time from work in order to care for children reduces wage…
Encouraging school enrollment and attendance among teenage parents on welfare: Early impacts of Ohio's Leap program
"Comments on Peter Eisinger's "City Politics in an Era of Federal Devolution
Proximity to point sources of environmental mercury release as a predictor of autism prevalence
Two Steps Forward, One Step Back: The Uneven Economic Progress of Tanf Recipients
This study investigates the long‐term economic gains of current and former TANF recipients and explores the extent to which these recipients experience steady economic progress. Results suggest that recipients generally show economic progress but that there is considerable instability and heterogeneity of experience. Employment insecurity and poverty cycling are common even among the least disadvantaged TANF recipients and are particularly preval…
The Effects of Building Strong Families: A Healthy Marriage and Relationship Skills Education Program for Unmarried Parents
This article examines the impacts of B uilding S trong F amilies, a healthy marriage and relationship skills education program serving unmarried parents who were expecting or had recently had a baby. Based on a random assignment research design, the analysis uses survey data from more than 4,700 couples across eight research sites to estimate program effects. Results varied across sites, with one site having a pattern of positive effects (but no …
The Dynamics of Women Disconnected from Employment and Welfare
This study analyzes factors associated with transitions into and out of disconnectedness, which is defined as being disconnected from the labor market, welfare, and other substantial financial supports
The Long-Term Effects of Building Strong Families: A Program for Unmarried Parents
The authors present findings from a large-scale, random-assignment evaluation of Building Strong Families (BSF), a program offering group sessions on relationship skills education to low-income, unmarried parents who were expecting or had recently had a baby. Findings based on a 3-year follow-up survey of over 4,000 couples indicate that BSF did not succeed in its central objectives of improving the couple relationship, increasing the quality of …
Species abundance and temporal variation of arbovirus vectors in Brownsville, Texas
The recent outbreaks of the dengue fever and West Nile viruses and the looming threats of the Zika and chikungunya viruses highlight the importance of establishing effective, proactive arboviral surveillance in communities at high risk of transmission, such as those on the Texas–Mexico border. Currently, there are no approved human vaccines available for these mosquito-borne diseases, so entomological control and case management are the only know…
Executive Summaries
Volatility in capital markets -or in social conditions -may cause a deluge of ad hoc payout discussions. This article constructs a metric using equity and bond market yields as a quantitative leading indicator of when a payout-rate discussion may be warranted. While this methodology might be more of a resource to university-affiliated or public foundations, which have complete discretion over the level of the payout rate, private foundations migh…
Executive Summaries
Participatory grantmaking is increasingly being seen as an approach to philanthropy that can shift power dynamics. This article addresses whether changing the decision-making process in addition to changing the decision-makers has an effect on how grants are allocated. It examines the design of two grant review processes -one based on popular voting, the other a more traditional rubric approach -and compares their outcomes to learn whether a more…
The Impact of a Home Visiting Program Enhanced to Address Repeat Adolescent Pregnancy—A Randomized Controlled Trial of Steps to Success
Do Carrots Work Better than Sticks? Results from the National Child Support Noncustodial Parent Employment Demonstration
Most children in the United States will spend at least part of their childhood living apart from one of their parents; the child support system is designed to ensure that they nonetheless receive financial support. While the system is largely effective when noncustodial parents have substantial regular earnings, many noncustodial parents, including a disproportionate share of those whose children live in poverty, have limited earnings and ability…
Impacts of healthy marriage and relationship education for expectant and new mothers
Impacts of healthy marriage and relationship education with integrated economic stability services
Psychology (9 works) · Gender, Labor, and Family Dynamics (8 works) · Political science (8 works) · Economic growth (7 works) · Economics (7 works) · Sociology (7 works) · Business (6 works) · Medicine (5 works) · Demographic economics (4 works) · Developmental psychology (4 works)