Targeting in Social Programs: Avoiding Bad Bets, Removing Bad Apples
Schuck, Peter H. & Richard J. Zeckhauser
Language: English
Published by Brookings Institution Press, Washington, D.C., 2006
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- Title
- Targeting in Social Programs: Avoiding Bad Bets, Removing Bad Apples
- Author
- Schuck, Peter H. & Richard J. Zeckhauser
- Publisher
- Brookings Institution Press, Washington, D.C.
- Publication year
- 2006
- Condition
- As New
- Dust jacket
- As New
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0815778805
- ISBN 13
- 9780815778806
- Edition
- 1st Edition. First Printing.
Many government policies seek to help unfortunate, often low-income individuals ―in other words, "bad draws" These efforts are frequently undermined by poor targeting, however. In particular, when two groups of bad draws ―"bad bets" and "bad apples" ―are included in social welfare programs, bad policies are likely to result. Many politicians and policymakers prefer to sweep this problem under the rug. But the costs of this silence are high. Allocating resources to bad bets and bad apples does more than waste money ―it also makes it harder to achieve substantive goals, such as the creation of safe and effective schools. And perhaps most important, it erodes support for public programs on which many good bets and good apples rely. By training a spotlight on these issues, Schuck and Zeckhauser take a first step toward much-needed reforms. They dissect the challenges involved in defining bad bets and bad apples and discuss the safeguards that any classification process must provide. They also examine three areas where bad apples and bad bets loom large ―public schools, public housing, and medical care ―and propose policy changes that could reduce the problems these two groups pose.
This provocative book does not offer easy answers, but it raises questions that no one with an interest in policy effectiveness can afford to ignore. By turns incisive and probing, Bad Draws will generate vigorous debate.
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About the Author
Richard J. Zeckhauser is the Frank Plumpton Ramsay Professor of Political Economy at the Harvard Kennedy School, Massachusetts, USA. He is the coauthor, with Jonathan K. Spence, of The Patron's Payoff: Conspicuous Commissions in Italian Renaissance Art (Princeton University Press, 2008).
Peter H. Schuck is the Simeon E. Baldwin Professor of Law at Yale Law School, USA, where he has held the chair since 1984. His recent books include Meditations of a Militant Moderate: Cool Views on Hot Topics,/em> (Rowman and Littlefield, 2005).
Richard J. Zeckhauser is the Frank Plumpton Ramsey Professor of Political Economy at the Harvard Kennedy School, USA. He is the coauthor, with Jonathan K. Spence, of The Patron's Payoff: Conspicuous Commissions in Italian Renaissance Art (Princeton University Press, 2008).
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