by Tom Corbett
“Moving Families Out of Poverty: Employment, Tax, and Investment Strategies,” a briefing report edited with Karen Bogenschneider, Mary Ellen Bell, and Kirsten Linney. (University of Wisconsin–Madison: School of Human Ecology), April 1997.
“Wisconsin Works: A View from the Ground” in Evaluating Comprehensive State Welfare Reform: A Conference. (University of Wisconsin: Institute for Research on Poverty) IRP Special Report #69, March 1997, pp. 117–138.
“Work-Not-Welfare: Time Limits in Fond du Lac County, Wisconsin” with Elisabeth Boehnen. Focus, 18:1, Special Issue 1996, pp. 77–81.
“Revising Child Support Orders: The Wisconsin Experience” with Kate Kost, Dan Meyer, and Pat Brown. In Family Relations, 45 (1), January 1996, pp. 19–26.
“Developing a Child Support Assurance Program for Minnesota” with Dan Meyer and Tom Kaplan. IRP Special Report no. 66 (August 1995).
“Immigration and Social Policy: New Interest in An Old Issue” with Thomas Espenshade, Michael Fix, Wendy Zimmerman. Focus, 18:2, Fall/Winter 1996–97, p. 1–10.
“Welfare Waivers: Some Salient Trends” with Elisabeth Boehnen. Focus, 18:1, Special Issue 1996, pp. 34–37.
“Understanding Wisconsin Works (W-2).” Focus, 18:1, Special Issue 1996, pp. 53–54.
“Welfare Reform in Wisconsin: The Rhetoric and the Reality,” in The Politics of Welfare Reform, Donald Norris and Lyke Thompson (eds.), (Sage Publications: Thousand Oaks Cal.) pp. 19–54, 1995.
“Why Welfare Is Still Hard to Reform?” In Welfare Reform: Can Government Promote Parental Self-Sufficiency While Ensuring the Well-Being of Children? Wisconsin Family Impact Seminars Briefing Book, Karen Bogenschneider and Tom Corbett (eds.). School of Family Resources and Consumer Sciences: University of Wisconsin–Madison (January 1995).
Final Report of the Order Revision Pilot Project. A Report to the Office of Child Support Enforcement, Division of Economic Support, Wisconsin Department of Health and Social Services. Daniel Meyer, Kate Kost, and Pat Brown (December 1994).
“Changing the Culture of Poverty,” in Focus, 16:2, Winter 1994–95, pp. 12–22; a lengthier version of this article was presented as a paper at the October, 1994 APPAM conference in Chicago.
“Child Poverty and Welfare Reform: Progress or Paralysis?” Focus, 15:1, Spring 1993, pp. 1–17.
“The Wisconsin Child Support Assurance System: From Plausible Proposal to Improbable Prospects,” in Child Support Assurance: Design Issues, Expected Impacts, and Political Barriers as Seen from Wisconsin (1992). Irwin Garfinkel, Sarah McLanahan, and Phillip Robbins (eds). Washington, DC:The Urban Institute Press.
A New Way to Fight Child Poverty and Welfare Dependence: The Child Support Assurance System (CSAS) (1992). A report published by the National Center for Children in Poverty. New York: Columbia University School of Public Health (with Irwin Garfinkel and Elizabeth Phillips).
“The Wisconsin Welfare Magnet Debate: What is an Ordinary Member of the Tribe to do when the Witch Doctors Disagree?” in Focus, 13:3, Fall and Winter 1991, pp. 19–28.
Final Report on the Wisconsin Order Revision Pilot Project (1991). A report to the Wisconsin Department of Health and Social Services.
An Evaluation of the State Health Insurance Pilot Program. (June 1991) A report to the Division of Health, Wisconsin State Department of Health and Social Services. (With Karen Holden and Pamela Spohn.)
A Preliminary Assessment of the Order Revision Pilot Project. (October 1990) A report to the Bureau of Child Support, Wisconsin Department of Health and Social Services. (With Pat Brown.)
“Income Support and Welfare Reform—Wisconsin Style.” (1990) In Dollars and Sense: Policy Choices and the Wisconsin Budget. La Follette Institute for Public Affairs, University of Wisconsin–Madison. (With Robert Haveman and Michael Wiseman.)
The Wisconsin Learnfare Program: A Mystery in Three Acts. Written testimony to the Senate Subcommittee on Social Security and Family Policy (June 1990) in Washington, DC
“Learnfare: The Wisconsin Experience.” (1989) Focus. IRP: University of Wisconsin–Madison.
“Reflections on the Work Experience and Job Training Program.” (May 1989) IRP Notes and Comments.
“Assured Child Support in Milwaukee: Problems and Prospects.” (September 1989) A report prepared for the Milwaukee County Department of Social Services.
“The Welfare Magnet Issue Revisited.” (December 1988) Paper distributed by the La Follette Institute of Public Affairs, University of Wisconsin–Madison. (With Robert Haveman and Paul Voss.)
“Public Opinion About a Child Support Assurance System.” (December 1988) In Social Service Review. (With Nora Cate Schaeffer and Irwin Garfinkel.)
Evaluation Design for the Wisconsin Child Support Assurance Demonstration (June 1988). Report to the Wisconsin Department of Health and Social Services. (With I. Garfinkel, M. MacDonald, S. McLanahan, P. Robins, N. C. Schaeffer, and J. Seltzer.)
“Managing Workfare: What Are the Issues?” (February 1988) IRP: DP #859-88, University of Wisconsin–Madison. (With Michael Wiseman.)
An Evaluation of the Use of Immediate Income Withholding to Collect Child Support Obligations in Milwaukee County. (Spring 1987) Report to the Wisconsin Department of Health and Social Services. (With Ann Lewis.)
Report of the Welfare Magnet Study Committee. (December 1986) A report to the Wisconsin Expenditure Commission. (With Bernard Stumbras and Paul Voss.)
“Respondent Judgments about Components of the Child Support Reform Program.” (Fall 1986) IRP: University of Wisconsin–Madison. (With N. C. Schaeffer.) Report presented at APPAM Conference.
“Child Support Assurance: Wisconsin Demonstration.” (Spring 1986) Focus. IRP: University of Wisconsin–Madison.
“Assuring Child Support in Wisconsin.” (Winter 1986) In Public Welfare. Pp. 33-39 (With I. Garfinkel, A. Skyles, and E. Uhr.)
“A Design for an Economic Analysis: The Wisconsin Child Support Demonstration.” (June 1986) In J. S. Catterall (ed.) Economic Evaluation of Public Programs: New Directions for Program Evaluation, No. 26, San Francisco: Jossey Bass.
The Child Support Assurance Program in Milwaukee County: Prospects for Implementation. (Summer 1985) IRP: University of Wisconsin-Madison. (With Sandra Danziger.) A report to Wisconsin DHSS.
“Child Support: Weaknesses of the Old and Features of a Proposed New System.” (February 1982) IRP: University of Wisconsin– Madison. (With I. Garfinkel, et al.)
“Tax Credits to Stimulate the Employment of Disadvantaged Workers.” (April 1981) IRP Special Report #31, University of Wisconsin–Madison.
Searching for the Holy Grail (Chapter 6)
Integrating Human Services: Pursuit of Public Policy’s Holy Grail, with Jennifer L. Noyes, work-in-progress, Institute for Research on Poverty.
“The Family Impact Lens: An Evidence-Informed, Family-Focused Approach to Policy and Practice” with Karen Bogenschneider, Olivia Little, Theodora Ooms, Sara Benning, and Karen Cardigan. Forthcoming in Family Relations (2011)
“Family Policy: Becoming a Field of Inquiry and Subfield of Social Policy” in the Journal of Marriage and Family, (June 2010), pp. 784-804, with Karen Bogenschnieider.
“A Progress Report on the Wisconsin Family Forward Initiative” a report prepared for the Wisconsin Departments of Health and Family Services and Workforce Development, with Jennifer L. Noyes (December 2006).
“Toward a Comprehensive Definition of Service Integration” a working paper with Jennifer L. Noyes, (July 2006).
“Integrated Human Service Models: Assessing Implementation Fidelity through the ‘Line-Of-Sight’ Perspective” a working draft (July 2006).
“Cross-systems innovations: The line-of-sight exercise, getting from where you are to where you want to be, in Focus, Vol. 24, No. 1, Fall 2005, with Jennifer L. Noyes.
“The Challenge of Institutional “Milieu” to Cross-Systems Integration..” Focus, Vol. 24, No.1, Fall 2005, with James Dimas, James Fong, and Jennifer L. Noyes.
“Ser
vice and Systems Integration: A Collaborative Project.” Focus Vol. 23, no. 2 (Summer 2004) with Jennifer L. Noyes.
“The Service Integration Agenda: Political, Conceptual, and Methodological Challenges.” Focus, Vol. 22, no. 3, (Summer 2003) with Jennifer L. Noyes.
“Eliminating the Silos: Perspectives of the WELPAN Network.” Institute for Research on Poverty, University of Wisconsin (2002).
“Strategies for Coordination at the Local Level,” in Welfare System Reform: Coordinating Federal, State, and Local Programs (1992). Ed. Jennings and Neal Zank (eds). New York: Greenwood Press.
“Interstate Migration and Public Welfare: The Migration Decision Making of a Low Income Population,” in Community, Society, and Migrating (1992). Patrick Jobes, William Stinner, and John Wardwill (eds). New York: University Press of America (with Paul Voss and Richard Randall).
Doing JOBS: A Comprehensive Research and Demonstration Program for Kenosha County, Wisconsin. (1991) A report prepared for the Kenosha County Department of Social Services.
A Management Assessment of the Dane County WEJT/JOBS Program (1991) A report to the Dane County Department of Social Services. (With Michael Wiseman.)
A Management Assessment Report on the Pilot Work Experience and Job Training Program in Kenosha County. (January 1988) A report to the Wisconsin Department of Health and Social Services. (With Lawrence Mead, Bernard Stumbras, and Michael Wiseman.)
A Failure to Communicate (Chapter 7)
“Welfare Reform and Family Well-Being: Apocalypse or Opportunity.” A paper prepared for the Midwest Meeting of Social Work Deans and Chairs, Madison WI (September, 1999).
Welfare Reform: Challenges or Opportunities for Philanthropy, edited with Karen Bogenschneider and Mary Ellen Bell, Donors Forum of Wisconsin: Milwaukee, WI, June 1997.
“The Midwest Welfare Peer Assistance Network (WELPAN): A Model” with Elisabeth Boehnen and Theodora Ooms. Focus 18:3, Spring 1997, pp. 64–66.
“The New Federalism: Monitoring Consequences.” Focus, 18:1, Special Issue 1996, pp. 3–6.
“Background and Context for the Forum Series,” in Welfare Reform in the 104th Congress, Congressional Forum III. IRP Special Report #65 (May 1995), pp. 1–13.
“Welfare Block Grants: Concepts, Controversies, and Context,” in Welfare Reform in the 104th Congress, Congressional Forum I. IRP Special Report #61 (April 1995), pp. 15–24.
“State/University Relationships: Problems and Prospects.” (September 1982) Center for the Study of Public Policy and Administration, University of Wisconsin-Madison.
To See Things, You Have to Go Out and Look (Chapter 8)
“Evaluating Welfare Reform in an Era of Transition: Are We Looking in the Wrong Direction?” Focus, Vol. 21, no. 3 (2001).
“Implementation Analysis: From Intention to Intervention” with Tom Kaplan. An unpublished paper prepared for the conference on Process Methods held in Washington DC (October, 1999); also “INTRODUCTION AND OVERVIEW: Social Policy Devolution and Process Studies.” with Mary Clare Lennon, for the same conference.
“The Next Generation of Welfare Reforms: An Assessment of the Evaluation Challenge,” a chapter in a proposed book titled Evaluating Comprehensive State Welfare Reform: The Wisconsin Works Program, Burt Barnow, Tom Kaplan, and Robert Moffitt (eds.) To be published through Rockefeller Institute at SUNY-Albany.
“Social Indicators and Public Policy in an Age of Devolution.” With Brett Brown, forthcoming in Trends in the Well-Being of Children and Youth. Roger Weissberg, Carol Bartels, and Herbert Walberg, eds. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications.
1999 WISKIDS Count: A Portrait of Child Well-Being in Wisconsin. Prepared with Elisabeth Boehnen and Cynthia White. Wisconsin Council on Children and Families, Inc.: Madison WI (September, 1999).
“Poverty: Improving the measure after Thirty Years” in Focus Vol. 20, No. 2 (Spring 1999), pp. 51-55.
1998 WISKIDS Count Data Book: A Portrait of Child Well-Being in Wisconsin. Prepared with Elisabeth Boehnen and Pat Brown. Wisconsin Council on Children and Families, Inc.: Madison, WI (1998).
“Working Around the Official Poverty Measure.” Focus Vol. 19, no. 2, pp. 21–24 (Spring 1998).
Welfare Reform: How Will We Know if it Works? A publication of the Midwest Welfare Peer Assistance Network (WELPAN). This publication was prepared by Theodora Ooms and myself with editorial and stylistic input from Valery Denney Communications of Chicago, IL (January 1998).
State Capacity Study—The Wisconsin Report. A report prepared for the State Capacity Study being conducted at the Rockefeller Institute of Government: SUNY-Albany, with Tom Kaplan and Elisabeth Boehnen, November 1997.
The Foreword for Indicators of Children’s Well-Being, Robert Hauser, Brett Brown, and William Prosser (eds.), Russell Sage Foundation: New York, 1997.
The Foreword for IRP Special Report #72, B. Brown, G. Kirby, and C. Botsko, “Social Indicators of Child and Family Well-Being: A Profile of Six State Systems,” 1997.
The Foreword for IRP Special Report #73, J. Koshel, “Indicators as Tools for Managing and Evaluating Programs at the National, State, and Local Levels of Government—Practical and Theoretical Issues,” 1997.
“Social Indicators and Public Policy in the Age of Devolution,” with Brett Brown. (University of Wisconsin–Madison: Institute for Research on Poverty), IRP Special Report #71, Summer 1997.
“Improving the Measurement of American Poverty,” with Gary Burtless and Wendall Primus, unpublished working paper (University of Wisconsin–Madison: Institute for Research on Poverty).
“The Next Generation of Welfare Reforms: An Assessment of the Evaluation Challenge” in Evaluation Comprehensive State Welfare Reforms: A Conference. (University of Wisconsin: Institute for Research on Poverty) IRP Special Report #69, March 1997, pp. 7–24.
“Research and Evaluation Issues Relating to W-2” with John Witte. Focus, 18:1, Special Issue 1996, pp. 74–76.
“Third Annual IRP/ASPE Conference on Evaluation: Reflections on the Conference.” In Focus, 14:1, Spring 1992, pp. 25–28.
Coordination: A View from the Streets (1991). A paper prepared for the National Commission for Employment Policy and discussed at a conference held in San Diego (July, 1991).
Coordination: A View from the States. A paper prepared for the National Commission for Employment Policy and presented at a conference held in May 1991 in San Antonio, Texas.
“The New Face of Welfare: From Income Transfers to Social Assistance?” Focus, Vol. 22, no. 1 (2002).
Values and Other Inconveniences (Chapter 9):
The Other Side of the World. With Mary Jo Clark, Michael Simonds, and Hayward Turrentine (Strategic Press, 2011).
Return to the Other Side of the World. With Mary Jo Clark, Michael Simonds, Katherine Sohn, and Hayward Turrentine (Strategic Press, 2013),
Ouch, Now I Remember. (Xlibris Press, 2015).
Confessions of a Clueless Rebel (Hancock Press, 2018)
In Darkness, Some Light (Chapter 10)
The Boat Captain’s Conundrum. (Xlibris Press, 2016).
A Wayward Academic (Chapter 11)
The Rise and Fall of Poverty as a Policy Issue, Vol: 30, no. 2, Focus, Fall-Winter 2013-14
Evidence-Based Policymaking. With Karen Bogenschneider. (Routledge Press, 2010).
The Boat Captain’s Conundrum. (Xlibris Press, 2016)
The Sheltered Workshop (Chapter 12)
When Researchers Delivered Evidence to Policymakers, chapter 3 in Evidence Based Policy Making, by T. Corbett and K, Bogenschneider, (New York: Taylor and Francis, 2010)
The Rise and Fall of Poverty as a Policy Issue, Vol: 30, no. 2, Focus, Fall-Winter 2013-14
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Thomas Corbett, Ph.D. is an Emeritus Senior Scientist with the Institute for Research on Poverty where he served as Associate Director for a decade before his retirement. He earned a Ph.D. in Social Welfare from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and taught various Social Policy courses at the undergraduate and
graduate levels in the School of Social Work. He has long studied social assistance systems that affect the well-being of disadvantaged families. In addition, he has explored methods for assessing program effectiveness and strategies for monitoring the status of vulnerable populations, including service on a National Academy of Sciences expert panel examining methods for evaluating contemporary welfare reform. He co-edited a book with Mary Clare Lennon (Columbia University) titled Policy into Action, an exploration of methods to evaluate the implementation of innovative initiatives. More recently, he published a book with Karen Bogenschneider (University of Wisconsin) on evidence-based policymaking. Over the years, he has worked on poverty-related policy issues at all levels of government, including a year as senior policy advisor at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services where he worked on President Clinton’s welfare reform bill and other policy issues. Among many other initiatives, he has worked with a number of senior state officials in the Midwest on various welfare reform issues through the Welfare Peer Assistance Network (WELPAN) and has consulted with numerous state and local sites in the U.S. and Canada who are developing integrated human service models in their jurisdictions. Beginning in 2010, Dr. Corbett has published nine books distributed across the fiction, memoir, and public policy genres. Now retired, he resides in Madison, Wisconsin.