The Pathways to Work Evidence Clearinghouse is a comprehensive, transparent, and systematic assessment of the effectivness of interventions designed to help low-income job seekers succeed in the labor market.
Dana Rotz
Senior Researcher
Expertise
- Reproductive health and family planning
- Teen pregnancy prevention
- Maternal and child health
- Social enterprises
- Quasi-experimental and experimental evaluations
- Systematic reviews
Focus Areas
- Education
- Strengthening and Disseminating Research
- Employment
- Labor: Strengthening and Disseminating Research
- Training and Re-employment
- Family Support
- Human Services
About Dana
Dana Rotz's research spans the labor, education, international, and family support topics. She specializes in evaluations of both reproductive health and employment programs.
Rotz currently plays a key role in the analysis for a large-scale, multisite study exploring effective ways to reduce teen sexual activity, pregnancy, and sexually transmitted diseases. She is also currently leading the design for an evaluation of an effort to reduce unintended pregnancy in Missouri. She serves as the technical lead on Mathematica's outcome verification for the Utkrisht Impact Bond, a development impact bond aiming to improve the quality of health care received by 600,000 pregnant women in Rajasthan, India. Key past work includes examining the impacts of job training, occupational counseling, and other career services for the Workforce Investment Act Adult and Dislocated Worker Programs Gold Standard Evaluation and the development of the What Works Clearinghouse Standards Version 4.0 Recertification Training.
Before joining Mathematica in 2012, Rotz held positions at Harvard University, Wellesley College, and Boston University. She has a Ph.D. in economics from Harvard University and is a reviewer for The Economic Journal, European Economic Review, Journal of Labor Economics, and the Quarterly Journal of Economics, among others.
Key Projects
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Pathways to Work Evidence Clearinghouse
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Workforce Investment Act Adult and Dislocated Worker Programs Gold Standard EvaluationIn 2008, the U.S. Department of Labor’s Employment and Training Administration commissioned Mathematica to conduct a national random assignment evaluation of the Workforce Investment Act Adult and Dislocated Worker programs' effectiveness.
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Bihar, India: Measurement Learning and Evaluation for the Family Health InitiativeMathematica is leading the measurement, learning, and evaluation component of the Ananya program, formerly known as the Family Health Initiative, in Bihar, India.
Latest News
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Policy in Perspective: Divorce and Women’s RetirementA new study reveals that women who have been divorced are more likely to be working at ages 50 to 74 than women who have never been divorced. Senior Researcher Dana Rotz discusses the findings in this episode of Mathematica’s “Policy in Perspective” podcast.
Related Case Studies
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The What Works Clearinghouse: Improving Practice, Research, and PolicyIn 2002, the U.S. Department of Education's (ED) Institute of Education Sciences (IES) established the What Works Clearinghouse (WWC) to collect, review, and report on studies of education interventions. The growing focus on evidence-based decision making increased demand for this type of information. Since...