Pregnancy Prevention

Jun 18, 2019

Evidence-Based Policy “Lite” Won’t Solve U.S. Social Problems: The Case of HHS’s Teen Pregnancy Prevention Program

In this report, we discuss the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ (HHS) Teen Pregnancy Prevention (TPP) program—a federal evidence-based grant program that was enacted in 2009 and is funded at about $100 million per year. By law, approximately 75 percent of TPP…

An exciting new finding in the effort to prevent teen pregnancy (but a replication study is needed)

Accurately Reported Credible Positive Finding

To establish that a social program or medical treatment produces a meaningful improvement in people’s lives, it is generally not enough to show that rigorous evaluations have found statistically-significant effects. The evaluations must also show effects on outcomes that…

An effective program for preventing unintended pregnancies? Not so fast.

Not Accurately Reported