Caseworker-recipient interaction: Welfare office differences, economic trajectories, and child outcomes

Child Development

Volumn 83, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 382-398

  Godfrey, Erin B ^a   Yoshikawa, Hirokazu ^b  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACHIEVEMENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR DISORDER; CHILD; CHILD WELFARE; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; ECONOMICS; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; HUMAN RELATION; INCOME; MALE; MOTIVATION; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PRESCHOOL CHILD; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SOCIAL SECURITY; SOCIAL SUPPORT; SOCIAL WELFARE; SOCIAL WORK; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS; UNITED STATES; VOCATIONAL EDUCATION; VOCATIONAL REHABILITATION; WORKLOAD;

ACHIEVEMENT; ADULT; AID TO FAMILIES WITH DEPENDENT CHILDREN; CALIFORNIA; CHILD; CHILD BEHAVIOR DISORDERS; CHILD WELFARE; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GOALS; HUMANS; INCOME; INTERNAL-EXTERNAL CONTROL; MALE; MODELS, STATISTICAL; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); PROFESSIONAL-PATIENT RELATIONS; REHABILITATION, VOCATIONAL; SOCIAL SUPPORT; SOCIAL WELFARE; SOCIAL WORK; STATISTICS AS TOPIC; UNITED STATES; VOCATIONAL EDUCATION; WORKLOAD;

EID: 84856258888     PISSN: 00093920     EISSN: 14678624     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-8624.2011.01697.x     Document Type: Article

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