W.E. Upjohn Institute
Titles appearing in Reference — Research Book News — August 2011
The performance of performance standards.
Ed. by James J. Heckman et al.
W.E. Upjohn Institute, ©2011 329 p. $22.00 JF1525
978-0-88099-292-3
A team of four economists and a public affairs analyst assess efforts to make government agencies more efficient and accountable by establishing performance standards and rewarding those that achieve the standard. Among their topics are US employment and training programs and performance standards system design, performance targets and benchmarks, local responses to performance incentives and implications for program outcomes, and whether short-turn performance measures predict long-run impacts. (Annotation ©2011 Book News Inc. Portland, OR)
