Human Services Disability Topics
Mathematica’s policy research on transition-age youth and working-age adults with disabilities focuses on employment issues, which are intertwined with health care, accommodations, parenting, decisions to seek public income support, and other issues.
Our work in this area includes studies of state vocational rehabilitation services, the Ticket to Work program, and other Social Security Administration initiatives designed to promote employment, as well as studies of customized and supported employment models.
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Publication
The Retaining Employment and Talent After Injury/Illness Network (RETAIN) Demonstration: Evaluation Findings One Year After Enrollment
This report presents findings from participation, impact, and benefit-cost analyses for each of the five RETAIN programs. Each RETAIN program used a random assignment study design, such that some enrollees were in a treatment group that could use RETAIN services and the others were in a control group that could use limited or no services besides those typically available in the community. The report findings cover a one-year follow-up period and are based on Mathematica’s analysis of programs’ enrollment and service use data, state unemployment insurance wage records, SSA program data, a follow-up survey of RETAIN enrollees that Mathematica conducted about 12 months after enrollment, and program cost data.
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