The HVRP focuses exclusively on employment services for veterans experiencing homelessness. This brief describes the types of services HVRP participants received at American Job Centers (AJCs) compared to veterans experiencing homelessness who did not participate in HVRP but received AJC services.
This study is the first to establish that a national program for disconnected youth can produce long‐term labor market gains, and can be a positive investment made for society.
This Journal of Policy Analysis & Management article examines the effects of “intensive services” provided by the Adult and Dislocated Worker programs, two of the largest employment service programs in the United States.
This systematic research review suggests a need for more rigorous studies, as there is not yet much evidence to guide decision making around instructional and support strategies for adult learners.
This article uses a parallel IV framework to discuss and build on the much smaller literature on estimation of CACE parameters for designs with multiple treatment groups.
This article discusses estimation of average treatment effects for randomized controlled trials (RCTs) using grouped administrative data to help improve data access.
This report summarizes research methods and processes involved in the rigorous evaluation of the Youth CareerConnect program.
This impact report summarizes findings from Mathematica’s evaluation of the Youth CareerConnect program, a high school–based program that blends academic and career-focused learning and aims to prepare students for both college and careers.
This article builds on this framework to develop design-based estimators for evaluations with multiple research groups.
This report summarizes evaluation design options for research questions related to the provision of youth services in Job Corps.
This report describes how design-based estimators for the two-group design need to be modified for the multi-armed design when comparing pairs of research groups to each other.
This study investigates how much of a practical difference it makes to use design-based methods versus more conventional model-based methods.
This brief aims to broaden knowledge of design-based methods by describing their key concepts and how they compare to model-based methods.
This publication presents study highlights from a national experimental evaluation of the Adult and Dislocated Worker programs.
This brief presents the impact findings from a national experimental evaluation of the Adult and Dislocated Worker programs.
This report presents the 30-month impact findings from a national experimental evaluation of the Adult and Dislocated Worker programs. It also provides the cost-benefit analysis results.
This report appendix presents details of the technical approach for estimating the impacts of the availability of intensive and training services funded by the Workforce Investment Act (WIA) Adult and Dislocated Worker programs.
This report presents findings from a study of the WIA Adult and Dislocated Worker programs’ impacts on employment and earnings.
This report describes the implementation of the impact study of the Workforce Investment Act Gold Standard Evaluation.
This report describes a novel statistical theory for estimating impacts for randomized controlled trials (RCTs) for a wide range of designs used in social policy research.
Variation in treatment effects has important implications for education practice—and for facilitating the most efficient use of limited resources—by informing decisions about how best to target interventions and how to improve the design or implementation of interventions.
Performance management systems may improve service delivery and participant outcomes, but they do not necessarily provide information on a program's causal effects.
This article addresses likely error rates for measuring teacher and school performance in the upper elementary grades using value-added models applied to student test score gain data.
Part of a volume examining WIA’s objectives and the evidence on program performance and impact.
For randomized controlled trials (RCTs) of education interventions, estimates of associations between student and mediating teacher practice outcomes can help examine the extent to which the data support the study's conceptual model.
In randomized control trials (RCTs) in the education field, the complier average causal effect (CACE) parameter is often of policy interest, because it pertains to intervention effects for students who receive a meaningful dose of treatment services.
For randomized control trials (RCTs) of education interventions, it is often of interest to estimate associations between student and mediating teacher practice outcomes, to examine the extent to which a study’s conceptual model is supported by data, and to identify mediators most associated with student...
Randomized control trials (RCTs) in the education field typically examine the intention-to-treat parameter, which is estimated by comparing the mean outcomes of treatment group members to those of the control group.
This article examines theoretical and empirical issues related to the statistical power of impact estimates for experimental evaluations of education programs.
This paper examines theoretical and empirical issues related to the statistical power of impact estimates for experimental evaluations of education programs.
Summarizes the main findings from a series of other reports on the study. Concludes that centers deliver comprehensive and consistent services.
Describes the characteristics of eligible applicants and compares them with the broader national population of disadvantaged youth.