A Behavioral Economics Assessment of Social Security Disability Insurance Earnings Reporting Documents

Social Security Disability Insurance (SSDI) beneficiaries who work are often overpaid, with a median overpayment amount of over $9000.

Obtaining Administrative Data for DOL Research and Evaluations, Insights from Employment and Training Research

This toolkit aims to help DOL and DOL program evaluators navigate the process of establishing data use agreements to obtain administrative data for the purpose of conducting DOL-funded research and evaluations, and it includes materials to assist with the outreach and negotiation process.

Estimating the “Effective Teaching Gap”

Inequality in educational outcomes is substantial and persistent in the United States.

The Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act (WIOA): Summary of Stakeholder Input on Research Priorities

This brief summarizes input on research priorities gathered from workforce system stakeholders and experts between November 2020 – April 2021 for the WIOA Research Portfolio project.

Using Promotion Power to Identify the Effectiveness of Public High Schools in the District of Columbia

This study estimated the promotion power of public high schools in the District of Columbia.

A Research Evidence Scan of Key Strategies Related to WIOA

This scan summarizes existing evidence on key topics related to programs and services supported by the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act.

Unpacking Complex Mediation Mechanisms and Their Heterogeneity Between Sites in a Job Corps Evaluation

This study aims to test the theory underlying Job Corps, one of the largest education and training programs in the U.S. serving disadvantaged youth.

A Behavioral Economics Assessment of SSDI Earnings Reporting Documents

This study uses insights from the behavioral economics literature to provide a comprehensive diagnosis of seven SSA written communications that include information on earnings reporting.

Behavioral Interventions for Compliance Assistance: Design Report

This report provides intervention and evaluation designs for two behavioral intervention (BI) trials that, if implemented, would test whether webinar registrations increase when behavioral strategies are applied to emails targeting a given industry.

Compliance Strategies Evaluation Literature and Database Review

The Compliance Strategies Evaluation Literature and Database Review provides a synthesis of existing literature and data related to Wage and Hour Division (WHD) compliance strategies. The review summarizes what is currently known about effective compliance assistance strategies and suggests further research...

The Promotion Power Impacts of Louisiana High Schools

This report describes the data and methods used to measure Louisiana public high schools’ promotion power, which is a school’s effect on the long-term success of its students as indicated by high school graduation, college or career readiness, college enrollment and persistence, and earnings.

The Promotion Power Impacts of Louisiana High Schools (Executive Summary)

This summary describes a study that measured Louisiana public high schools’ promotion power, which is a school’s effect on the long-term success of its students as indicated by high school graduation, college or career readiness, college enrollment and persistence, and earnings.

Multisite Causal Mediation Analysis in the Presence of Complex Sample and Survey Designs and Non‐Random Non‐Response

This study provides a template for multisite causal mediation analysis using a comprehensive weighting‐based analytic procedure that enhances external and internal validity.

Quality Ratings and System Characteristics: Patterns in the Round 1 Race to the Top—Early Learning Challenge States

This brief describes early learning and development programs' ratings in tiered quality rating and improvement systems (TQRIS) in the nine states that received Round 1 Race to the Top―Early Learning Challenge (RTT-ELC) grants.

Two-Step Estimation in Ratio-of-Mediator-Probability Weighted Causal Mediation Analysis

This study investigates appropriate estimation of estimator variability in the context of causal mediation analysis that employs propensity score-based weighting.

Behavioral Insights Study: Behavioral Interventions Helped More Employers Resolve OSHA Citations (Infographic)

This infographic summarizes findings from Mathematica’s behavioral insights study conducted for the U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA).

Using Behavioral Insights to Help Employers Resolve OSHA Citations: Trial Design and Findings (Final Report)

This report provides findings from Mathematica’s behavioral insights study conducted for the U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA).

Pilot OSHA Citation Process Increases Employer Responsiveness (Brief)

This project brief summarizes findings from Mathematica’s behavioral insights study conducted for the U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA).

Are High- and Low-Income Students Taught by Equally Effective Teachers? (Study Snapshot)

This snapshot examines whether low-income students are taught by less effective teachers than high-income students, and if so, whether reducing this inequity would close the student achievement gap.

Do Low-Income Students Have Equal Access to Effective Teachers? Evidence from 26 Districts (Executive Summary)

This executive summary examines whether low-income students are taught by less effective teachers than high-income students, and if so, whether reducing this inequity would close the student achievement gap.

Do Low-Income Students Have Equal Access to Effective Teachers? Evidence from 26 Districts (Final Report)

This report examines whether low-income students are taught by less effective teachers than high-income students, and if so, whether reducing this inequity would close the student achievement gap.

Pilot OSHA Citation Process Increases Employer Responsiveness

This brief presents initial findings on the effects of an intervention designed to increase employer responsiveness to the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA).

Measuring School and Teacher Value Added in Charleston County School District, 2014-2015 School Year

This report describes the value-added models used for the Charleston County School District in the 2014-15 school year.

Ratio-of-Mediator-Probability Weighting for Causal Mediation Analysis in the Presence of Treatment-by-Mediator Interaction

Conventional methods for mediation analysis generate biased results when the mediator–outcome relationship depends on the treatment condition.

Measuring School and Teacher Value Added in Charleston County School District, 2013-2014 School Year

This report describes the value-added models that were used to estimate measures of teacher and principal effectiveness in Charleston County School District for the 2013-2014 school year.