Food and Nutritional Insecurity before and during the COVID-19 Pandemic in Households of Women Belonging to a Social Program

In this article, we explore the impact of a reentry and aftercare service program on the likelihood of returning to prison by ex-offenders. Using administrative data within a difference-in-differences design, we find that this social program is associated with a reduction in recidivism rates. Benchmark estimates show that the program was associated with estimated reductions in the probability of recidivating of 6.0 to 8.7 percentage points. The estimate appears to be economically significant as it implies an estimated treated effect in the 15.8% to 19.2% range. We consider the heterogeneous effects of the program on reducing recidivism according to race, age group, and program type. The program helped to reduce recidivism among Whites but not Blacks; older participants were the main beneficiaries while the effectiveness of the program was observed among older participants. Back-of-the-envelope cost-savings analysis is incorporated to estimate the potential savings to the state arising from the reduction in recidivism rates likely attributable to the program. The findings are robust to sample selection bias, alternative specifications, and estimation techniques. Our results offer some implications for the role of faith-based social programs within the context of criminal justice reform to combat reentry of former inmates. They also provide a cautionary tale about the need to evaluate programs not just based on their overall effect.

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Autumn School for Information Retrieval and Information Foraging 2019

ACM SIGIR Forum ◽

10.1145/3458553.3458572 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 53 (2) ◽

pp. 119-123

Author(s):

Felix Engl ◽

Robin Jegan ◽

Leon Martin

Keyword(s):

Information Retrieval ◽

Cultural Background ◽

Social Program ◽

Information Foraging ◽

Scientific Exchange

The Autumn School for Information Retrieval and Information Foraging (ASIRF) 2019 took place at Schloss Dagstuhl in Germany from September 22nd to 27th. The event featured eight lectures and tutorials from information retrieval experts and stood out due to the diversity of the participants, both regarding their cultural background and research. A varied social program complemented the scientific exchange.

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One Welfare State for Europe: A Costly Utopia?

Global Economy Journal ◽

10.2202/1524-5861.1027 ◽

2004 ◽

Vol 4 (2) ◽

pp. 1850020 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Peter Hennessy ◽

Thierry Warin

Keyword(s):

Social Program ◽

Pareto Optimum ◽

Gdp Growth ◽

The European Union ◽

Social Expenditure ◽

Asymmetric Shocks ◽

Pareto Optimum Solution ◽

Future Policy ◽

Optimum Solution ◽

Social Expenditures

This paper addresses the question of the social policy harmonization in the European Union. In adopting a common monetary policy, Europe is faced with structural and fiscal concerns, as national growth levels differ. Another possible factor in output shocks are the levels of various social expenditures in the member countries. OECD data on the level of social program expenditures in four EU countries will be compared to fluctuations in GDP growth to identify existing relationships. Significant relationships between independent social expenditure policy and GDP growth shocks suggest structural harmonization as an improvement if Europe is to take full advantage of the common market. However, the effects of expenditure levels may be easier to identify and predict than the dynamic effects of policy change. As the effects of future policy changes are more difficult to ascertain, harmonization may not consistently appear to be a Pareto-optimum solution to asymmetric shocks.

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Relacyjno-symboliczne aspekty ubóstwa w dyskursie politycznym na temat programu „Rodzina 500+”. Przypadek tygodnika „Newsweek Polska”

Annales Universitatis Paedagogicae Cracoviensis. Studia Politologica ◽

10.24917/20813333.20.3 ◽

1970 ◽

Vol 20 (274) ◽

pp. 26-42

Author(s):

Maciej Kostecki

Keyword(s):

Political Discourse ◽

Lower Class ◽

Public Institutions ◽

Social Program ◽

Poor People ◽

Social Politics ◽

Unemployed People ◽

Discursive Strategies ◽

Neoliberal Ideology

The article shows relational-symbolic aspects of poverty in polish political discourse about flagship Law and Justice’s Party social program called “Family 500+”. Based on the case study of weekly newspaper Newsweek Polska the author stressed main discursive strategies such as demoralization, humiliation of poor people, lower class and unemployed people as a examples of individual blame explanations of poverty. Moreover article presents efforts of justifying inequalities as a result of neoliberal ideology and the vision of profligacy of public institutions due to social politics expenses.

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Transcontinental Modernism. M&G as an Unité d’habitation and a factory complex in Mozambique

10.52200/43.a.2bif8auu ◽

2010 ◽

pp. 70-73

Author(s):

Ana Tostões ◽

Maria Manuel Oliveira

Keyword(s):

Social Program ◽

Sub Saharan Africa ◽

Industrial Complex ◽

Architectural Heritage ◽

Technological Approach ◽

The Social ◽

Sub Saharan ◽

Overseas Territories ◽

Architectural Modernism

With the aim of contributing to the documentation and conservation of the modern architectural heritage, this paper presents Monteiro & Giro Complex (M&G), built during the 50’s in Quelimane, Mozambique, with the goal of stressing the modernity of the social program and the technological approach. If one wants to gain a better understanding of the worldwide Diaspora of architectural modernism, it is essential to document and analyse the important heritage of sub–Saharan Africa. Modern architectural debates have been reproduced, transformed, contested and sometimes even improved in distant lands and overseas territories. These contradictory aspects of Modernist practice are revealed in the programmatic, technological and structural M&G industrial Complex.

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Continuidad Y Discontinuidad De Un Programa Social: Una Historia Del Desarrollo Rural Integrado (Dri) (Continuity and Discontinuity of a Social Program: A History of Integrated Rural Development)

SSRN Electronic Journal ◽

10.2139/ssrn.3047307 ◽

2017 ◽

Author(s):

Miguel Urrutia ◽

Sergio Duran ◽

Ariel-David Baquero

Keyword(s):

Rural Development ◽

Social Program ◽

Integrated Rural Development ◽

History Of ◽

Continuity And Discontinuity

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Disturbing Boundaries: Temperance, Black Elevation, and Violence in Frank J. Webb's The Garies and Their Friends

Prospects ◽

10.1017/s0361233300005147 ◽

1994 ◽

Vol 19 ◽

pp. 349-374 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Robert S. Levine

Keyword(s):

African American ◽

Social Program ◽

Moral Reform ◽

Temperance Movement ◽

Black Experience ◽

Universal Love

At the inaugural 1837 meeting of the American Moral Reform Society, one of Philadelphia's many African American reform groups, William Whipper called for blacks to commit themselves to total abstinence and “temperance in all things.” The group itself offered a resolution that subsumed a number of social desires and reforms under the rubric of temperance: “Resolved, That the successful promotion of all the principles of the Moral Reform Society, viz.: Education, Temperance, Economy, and Universal Love, depends greatly upon the practical prosecution of the Temperance Reform.” But of course temperance could only go so far, and at times those blacks most committed to temperance — whether conceived narrowly in terms of drinking, or more broadly in terms of a Franklinian commitment to economy and industry — seemed to lose sight of the limits of the black temperance movement in a racist culture. At the same 1837 meeting of the American Moral Reform Society, James Forten, Jr., addressed this issue head on. While endorsing temperance as a worthy social program of black elevation, he pointed to the central reality of the black experience in America: “that the arm of oppression is laid bare to crush us; that prejudice, like the never satiated tiger, selects us as its prey; that we have felt the withering blight of tyranny sweeping from before us, in its destructive course, our homes and our property.” But despite these obstacles, Forten advised, blacks should not give up the struggle to improve their lot and, as temperate and productive citizens, “to set an example to the rising generation.” As he rhetorically put it in his concluding remarks: “What … would the cause of learning and our country have lost, if a Franklin, a Rittenhouse, a Rush, could have been made to quail before the frowning brow of persecution?”

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