USING AN EVENT HISTORY ANALYSIS TO EVALUATE SOCIAL-WELFARE PROGRAMS

This article presents an overview of how an event history analysis can be used to evaluate social welfare programs' impacts on events and th e timing of events. An overview of event history analysis is presented , including a discussion of events and spells, hazards, censoring, dur ation intervals, longitudinal databases, design issues, and life table and multivariate analysis techniques. The article concludes with an e xample of how an event history analysis was used to evaluate the Aid t o Families with Dependent Children (AFDC) program.