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abstract: 'New Hope (NH) was a successful poverty reduction program that offered a
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positive social contract to working-poor adults. If you worked full
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time, you were eligible to receive income supplements, childcare
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vouchers, health care benefits, a community service job, and client
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respect. NH did reduce poverty and increase income and earnings for some
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participants, and improved outcomes for some children. But in spite of
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relatively generous benefits, NH was only selectively effective. Only
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those not working when NH began and those with few barriers to work were
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positively affected by the program through achieving more work hours,
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poverty reduction, and income gains. Boys in program families benefited,
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girls did not. Take-up of NH benefits was typically partial and
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episodic; for instance, some parents would not use childcare programs
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for young children. Ethnographic evidence was essential for
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understanding these sometimes-surprising program impacts and their
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policy and practice implications, and was effectively combined with an
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experimental, random-assignment research design. Psychological
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anthropology can bring its traditions of integrating qualitative and
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quantitative methods and its focus on experience, context, and meaning
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to understanding and improving policies and practices within a
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scientific frame of the committed, fair witness. {[}mixed methods,
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policy and practice, family, poverty, adolescence]'
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affiliation: 'Weisner, TS (Corresponding Author), Univ Calif Los Angeles, Dept Psychiat,
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Semel Inst, Ctr Culture \& Hlth, Los Angeles, CA 90024 USA.
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Weisner, Thomas S., Univ Calif Los Angeles, Dept Psychiat, Semel Inst, Ctr Culture
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\& Hlth, Los Angeles, CA 90024 USA.
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Weisner, Thomas S., Univ Calif Los Angeles, Dept Anthropol, Los Angeles, CA USA.'
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author: Weisner, Thomas S.
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author_list:
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- family: Weisner
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given: Thomas S.
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da: '2023-09-28'
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doi: 10.1111/j.1548-1352.2011.01208.x
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eissn: 1548-1352
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files: []
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issn: 0091-2131
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journal: ETHOS
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keywords: mixed methods; policy and practice; family; poverty; adolescence
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keywords-plus: CHILDREN; INTERVENTION; POVERTY; IMPACTS; PROMOTE
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language: English
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month: DEC
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number: 4, SI
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number-of-cited-references: '54'
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pages: 455-476
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papis_id: b4e5dafffd02f1c14e63483984117b91
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ref: Weisner2011ifyou
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times-cited: '6'
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title: '``If You Work in This Country You Should Not be Poor, and Your Kids Should
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be Doing Better″: Bringing Mixed Methods and Theory in Psychological Anthropology
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to Improve Research in Policy and Practice'
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type: article
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unique-id: WOS:000297414400014
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usage-count-last-180-days: '0'
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usage-count-since-2013: '12'
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volume: '39'
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web-of-science-categories: Anthropology; Psychology, Multidisciplinary
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year: '2011'
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