Publication Type
Journal Article
Version
acceptedVersion
Publication Date
2-2012
Abstract
Welfare reforms in the 1990s have shifted governments around the world towards financial assistance conditional on work. While large-scale rigorous research on welfare-to-work programs has demonstrated effectiveness towards employment in other countries, no such micro-level evaluation of a policy has ever been conducted in Singapore. This article describes the process of developing a large experimental evaluation of the Work Support Program, which the Ministry of Community Development, Youth and Sports started in 2006. The lessons learned from planning and implementing the research can be helpful to future researchers in negotiating long-term rigorous evaluations in an environment where collaborators lack sufficient research knowledge. Insights include ways to focus on the essentials, find alternative experimental designs, collaborate effectively, and adapt instruments across cultures.
Keywords
Singapore, Work support, Evaluation, Experimental design
Discipline
Asian Studies | Economics | Labor Economics
Research Areas
Macroeconomics
Publication
Evaluation and Program Planning
Volume
35
Issue
1
First Page
78
Last Page
87
ISSN
0149-7189
Identifier
10.1016/j.evalprogplan.2011.07.002
Publisher
Elsevier
Citation
HO, Kong Weng; Ng, Irene Y. H.; Nesamani, Thartmalingam; Lee, Alex; and Ngiam, Tee Liang.
Designing and implementing an evaluation of a national work support program. (2012). Evaluation and Program Planning. 35, (1), 78-87.
Available at: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/soe_research/1626
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Authors
Creative Commons License
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Additional URL
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.evalprogplan.2011.07.002