Documenting the War on Poverty's Community Programs

记录反贫困之战的社区计划

• 批准号: 8126203
• 负责人: Martha Jane Bailey
• 金额: $ 7.46万
• 依托单位: UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN AT ANN ARBOR
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2010
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2010-08-09 至 2013-07-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/8126203
• 关键词: Address; American; Americas; Award; Budgets; Civil Rights; Communities; Community Actions; Community Developments; Country; Data; Data Set; Databases; Economic Inflation; Economics; Education; Effectiveness; Electronics; Evaluation; Expenditure; Federal Government; Foundations; Funding; Future; Goals; Grant; Guidelines; Head Start Program; Health; Health Benefit; Health Policy; Health education; Housing; Knowledge; Left; Light; Local Government; Location; Medicare/Medicaid; Personal Satisfaction; Policy Maker; Population; Poverty; Printing; Public Health; Research; Research Personnel; Secure; Services; Social Sciences; Social Welfare; State Government; Statutes and Laws; Symptoms; Training and Education; United States Office of Economic Opportunity; War; Work; design; improved; insight; operation; population health; prevent; programs; public health relevance; research study; social

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): More than forty-five years after President Lyndon B. Johnson declared an "unconditional war on poverty," little systematic, econometric research has evaluated the health benefits of the War on Poverty's community programs. The main reason for the dearth of evidence on this topic is the lack of data on which communities received federal grants for War on Poverty programs, when they received them, what these grants were for, and how much funding was allocated. The proposed research aims to remedy this deficiency by pursuing four specific aims: (1) Collecting and cleaning information on the who received War on Poverty grants, where services under the grant were delivered, when the grant was awarded, what program the grant paid for, and the amount of the grant; (2) Examining the determinants of federal grants to different communities and programs under the War on Poverty; (3) Examining the coincidence and complementarity of War on Poverty grants for different programs, and (4) Distributing a new dataset on War on Poverty grants (collected in specific aim 1) for use by other researchers. The proposed research contributes to health policy and social science knowledge in several ways. First, it will provide a more detailed, local quantification of appropriations by program and grantee than ever assembled in an electronic database. Second, the new electronic dataset of War on Poverty grants by program, grantee, location and date will lay the groundwork for and encourage future analysis of the effects of these programs. Finally, understanding the determinants of grants for different purposes, communities and amounts not only provides insight into the internal workings of the War on Poverty administration, but this also sheds light on the validity of assumptions for alternative econometric estimators with which to evaluate these programs. Detailed information on the War on Poverty "treatments" (Aim 1) as well as the determinants of these treatments (Aims 2 and 3) together lay the foundation for quasi-experimental, econometric evaluations of the average, local effects of these programs on population health by this researcher and others (Aim 4). PUBLIC HEALTH RELEVANCE: This project contributes to public health knowledge in two main ways. First, it will aid researchers in understanding the impact and effectiveness of federal grants for social programs by compiling, encoding and disseminating information on the federal grants to improve public health under the War on Poverty. Second, this project will help create better estimates of the shorter- and longer-term benefits of War on Poverty public health programs in the U.S. These estimates should assist policy- makers and philanthropists in making funding decisions about current programs in the U.S. and abroad.

描述（由申请人提供）：总统林登·B·约翰逊（Lyndon B. Johnson）宣布“无条件的贫困战争”，经济学研究评估了《贫困战争》对贫困社区计划的健康益处。缺乏有关该主题的证据的主要原因是缺乏社区获得有关贫困计划战争的联邦赠款的数据，当他们收到贫困计划时，这些赠款的目的以及分配了多少资金。拟议的研究旨在通过追求四个具体目的来弥补这种不足：（1）收集和清洁有关WHO收到的有关贫困赠款战争的信息，授予赠款下的服务，授予赠款的授予，支付的赠款计划以及赠款的金额； （2）检查在贫困战争下向不同社区和计划的联邦赠款的决定因素； （3）研究不同计划的贫困赠款的战争的巧合和互补性，以及（4）分发有关贫困赠款战争的新数据集（在特定目标中收集），以供其他研究人员使用。 拟议的研究以多种方式为卫生政策和社会科学知识做出了贡献。首先，它将比电子数据库中的程序和受赠人提供更详细的本地拨款量化。其次，按计划，受让人，位置和日期按计划，贫困赠款战争的新电子数据集将为这些计划的影响奠定基础，并鼓励将来分析这些计划的影响。最后，理解出于不同目的的赠款的决定因素，社区和数量不仅可以深入了解贫困管理战争的内部运作，而且还阐明了对替代计量经济学估计器的假设有效性，以评估这些程序。有关贫困战争“治疗”战争的详细信息（目标1）以及这些治疗方法的决定因素（目标2和3）共同为准实验性，计量经济学评估对该研究人员和其他研究人员对这些计划对人群健康的平均效果的平均效果和其他人的基础奠定了基础（AIM 4）。 公共卫生相关性：该项目以两种主要方式有助于公共卫生知识。首先，它将通过编译，编码和传播有关联邦赠款的信息来帮助研究人员理解联邦赠款对社会计划的影响和有效性，以改善贫困战争中的公共卫生。其次，该项目将有助于更好地估算美国对贫困公共卫生计划的较短和长期利益，这些估计应有助于政策制定者和慈善家对美国和国外当前计划做出资金决策。