The Retaining Employment and Talent After Injury/Illness Network (RETAIN) demonstration, is a federal initiative to help workers with recent injuries or illnesses remain in the labor force.
These four program impact briefs present short-term impact findings for each of the four employment coaching programs participating in an experimental study conducted as part of the Evaluation of Employment Coaching for TANF and Related Populations.
This study examined how young adults on the autism spectrum, ages 16 to 28, engaged with state Vocational Rehabilitation (VR) agencies, the characteristics of those who applied for VR services, the VR services that they used, and their employment outcomes.
This is the executive summary of a report that presents estimates of the five-year impacts of the PROMISE programs on youth with disabilities who receive Supplemental Security Income and parent outcomes.
This report presents estimates of the five-year impacts of the PROMISE programs on youth with disabilities who receive Supplemental Security Income and parent outcomes.
This is the technical appendix of the report on estimated impacts and net benefits of six PROMISE programs five years after youth with disabilities enrolled in the evaluation. PROMISE programs are designed to assist youth with disabilities and their families access resources that can assist with the...
This brief presents considerations for using text message reminders to increase participation at the first session of a voluntary program and regular attendance thereafter, drawn from a recent study assessing the effectiveness of text message reminders in promoting couples’ attendance.
This study examines the extent to which the COVID-19 pandemic affected the outcomes of young people with disabilities.
Over 12,500 youth with disabilities ages 14-16 enrolled in the Promoting Readiness of Minors in Supplemental Security Income (PROMISE) demonstration, which aimed to improve the long-term self-sufficiency of youth with disabilities receiving Supplemental Security Income and their families.
This report describes the MotherWise program’s impacts 30 months after women enrolled in the study. These impacts were estimated by comparing the outcomes of women who were randomly assigned to either a group that was offered MotherWise services or a control group that was not.
This study examines the pathways that youth follow to longer-term employment and education outcomes, and the role of youth’s use of transition services and work experiences in those pathways, while drawing on data from an evaluation of a federal initiative known as PROMISE.
Lack of quality data has limited research into employment outcomes for young adults on the autism spectrum. To help researchers assess data on the topic, the REYAAS project catalogued 11 datasets containing employment-related information on this population.
This report describes the impacts of text message reminders on couples’ attendance at UF’s ELEVATE group workshop sessions. To estimate impacts, we randomly assigned 1,700 each couple to receive a different type of text message reminder or to a control group that did not receive reminders.
The Research Support Services for Employment of Young Adults on the Autism Spectrum (REYAAS) project will identify promising practices and policies to support employment of young adults on the autism spectrum. This fact sheet provides a brief overview of the REYAAS project and planned activities.
The Retaining Employment and Talent after Injury/Illness Network (RETAIN) demonstration aims to help workers with recently acquired injuries and illnesses remain in the labor force. The evaluation will document implementation and estimate the impacts on employment and use of disability programs.
PROMISE was a federal initiative to support youth receiving Supplemental Security Income (SSI) during the transition to adulthood. This article presents estimates of the impacts of the six PROMISE projects on youth and family outcomes as of 18 months after enrolling in PROMISE.
This report describes Motherwise’s impacts after one year as well as information on program implementation and costs. These impacts were estimated by comparing the outcomes of women who were randomly assigned to either a group that was offered MotherWise services or a control group that was not.
Youth with disabilities—particularly those receiving Supplemental Security Income (SSI)—face barriers to achieving education and employment outcomes at the individual, family, and systemic level that can undermine the foundation for their longer-term success.
This brief for the Fatherhood and Marriage Local Evaluation & Cross-Site Project examines data on paired partners, such as couples or coparents raising a child together, to better understand how programs directed to paired partners affect relevant outcomes.
This brief describes how low-income fathers participating in Responsible Fatherhood (RF) programs perceive and provide financial support for their children.
This report investigates how low-income fathers participating in responsible fatherhood programs perceive and provide support for their children.
This brief explores how responsible fatherhood programs could improve child well-being by helping fathers with their parent engagement skills.
This report highlights effective practices for building and using evidence. The study team poses a broad theoretical framework for using monitoring and evaluation to build evidence, which would allow the Wage and Hour Division to build upon its current practices. The study team also identifies potential...
This report describes opportunities and limitations of the Wage and Hour Division’s internal case management system, the Wage and Hour Investigative Support and Reporting Database (WHISARD), and a selection of external data sources for evaluation. The study team explored how external data can be integrated...
'Daddy quotas' that reserve some parental leave for fathers are increasingly common in developed nations, but it is unclear whether fathers respond to the binding constraints or the labeling effects they produce.
This is an executive summary of the estimated impacts of six PROMISE programs 18 months after youth with disabilities enrolled in the evaluation. PROMISE programs are designed to assist youth with disabilities and their families access resources that can assist with youth transitions.
This is the technical appendix of the report on estimated impacts of six PROMISE programs 18 months after youth with disabilities enrolled in the evaluation. PROMISE programs are designed to assist youth with disabilities and their families access resources that can assist with youth transitions.
This report presents the estimated impacts of six PROMISE programs 18 months after youth with disabilities enrolled in the evaluation. PROMISE programs are designed to assist youth with disabilities and their families access resources that can assist with youth transitions.
This brief presents the impacts of those programs on fathers’ parenting, relationships, economic stability, and well-being about one year after the fathers enrolled.
This brief presents the impacts of these programs about one year after study enrollment.
This report summarizes impact findings from Mathematica’s evaluation of the Responsible Fatherhood grant program.
This report summarizes impact findings from Mathematica’s evaluation of two Healthy Marriage programs for low-income couples.
Presented at the 2018 Research and Evaluation Conference on Self-Sufficiency, these slides summarize impact findings from Mathematica’s evaluation of the Healthy Marriage and Responsible Fatherhood programs.
This report for the Department of Labor examines Self-Employment Assistance (SEA) programs, which help eligible unemployment benefit recipients start businesses. It examines states’ motivation for and experience with establishing SEA programs and outcomes of SEA participants and their businesses.