Two years ago, we wrote about highly-promising initial findings for Year Up – a workforce training program for low-income young adults – in a large RCT sponsored by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ (HHS) Administration for Children and Families. The key…
In this report we discuss newly-published findings in the Journal of Policy Analysis and Management (JPAM) on the long-term effects of the federal Job Corps program. Job Corps, established in 1964, is the nation’s largest residential career training program for at-risk young…
In this report, we highlight positive new findings from a large replication RCT of Nevada’s Reemployment and Eligibility Assessment (REA) program for unemployment insurance (UI) claimants. The new findings—sizable earnings gains, sustained over at least three…
In our last Straight Talk report, we noted that short-term program effects can fade over time, and that excitement over initial evaluation findings too often ends in disappointment when longer-term results come in. In today’s report, we’re very pleased to share an…
MDRC, a leading social policy research organization, recently published its final report on an RCT of the Paycheck Plus demonstration in New York City.* The Paycheck Plus RCT was designed to test the effects of significantly expanding the Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) for…
Year Up workforce training shows credible evidence based results with promising findings from a well-conducted RCT. Accurately reported program results.
When a credible study finds that a social program produces large effects on important life outcomes, the skeptic may say, “I’ll believe it when I see it replicated.” The skeptic has a point. As we have discussed previously, in social policy just as in medicine, positive…