The HVRP focuses exclusively on employment services for veterans experiencing homelessness. This brief describes the types of services HVRP participants received at American Job Centers (AJCs) compared to veterans experiencing homelessness who did not participate in HVRP but received AJC services.
The HVRP focuses exclusively on employment services for veterans experiencing homelessness. This report describes program outreach and enrollment processes, core components of the HVRP model, the role of partnerships, and other community services available to veterans experiencing homelessness.
The HVRP focuses exclusively on employment services for veterans experiencing homelessness. This brief describes HVRP participants' co-enrollment at a program at American Job Centers (AJCs), including the percentage receiving services at the AJC and the processes used to co-enroll participants.
The State Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) Case Studies project is designed to expand the knowledge base on innovative approaches to help people with low incomes, including TANF recipients, prepare for and engage in work and increase their overall stability.
This case study, a part of the State TANF Case Studies project, describes Rhode Island Works, RI’s TANF program, and highlights how it provides supportive services to help participants overcome their barriers, participate in employment-related activities, and find sustainable employment.
This final project report summarizes the products and findings from the five-year National Evaluation of the Performance Partnership Pilots for Disconnected Youth (P3).
This report assesses the 14 awarded pilots’ implementation of the Federal vision for the Performance Partnership Pilots for Disconnected Youth (P3).
To learn about states’ efforts to expand registered apprenticeship, the U.S. Department of Labor contracted with Mathematica and its partners to administer a survey to states to document their efforts to support the expansion of apprenticeship programs and learn of their need for technical assistance...
This paper assesses P3 four years after its initial authorization, and is based on data collected from interviews with Federal agency staff and two rounds of site visits to the nine original (Cohort 1) pilots, conducted between 2016 and 2018.
To assess the Performance Partnership Pilots for Disconnected Youth (P3), Federal agencies sponsored a five-year national evaluation, under the direction of the U.S. Department of Labor Chief Evaluation Office. Using data from the evaluation’s implementation study, this paper reflects on the early experiences...
This paper summarizes the Institutional Analysis of American Job Centers (AJCs) study design, key findings, and implications for the AJC system under the Workforce Investment and Opportunity Act.
This document highlights practices for delivering services to disconnected youth, as identified in the literature scan and described in the study’s Evidence Scan report.
The external review covers a broad range of topics that are relevant to the Job Corps program, including program operations and services.
This publication presents study highlights from a national experimental evaluation of the Adult and Dislocated Worker programs.
This brief presents the impact findings from a national experimental evaluation of the Adult and Dislocated Worker programs.
This report presents the 30-month impact findings from a national experimental evaluation of the Adult and Dislocated Worker programs. It also provides the cost-benefit analysis results.
This report presents findings from a study of the WIA Adult and Dislocated Worker programs’ impacts on employment and earnings.
The Study of School Turnaround (SST) examines the change process in a diverse, purposive sample of schools receiving federal School Improvement Grants (SIG) from 2010–11 to 2012–13.
The Adult and Dislocated Worker programs are two of the largest public workforce investment programs in the United States, so it is important to determine the effectiveness of the services they offer.
The Elderly Nutrition Services Program Process Evaluation meal cost analysis examined the average cost of congregate and home-delivered meals provided under the Nutrition Services Programs, which is administered by the Administration on Aging, and whether the cost varied by program characteristics.
This report describes the implementation of the impact study of the Workforce Investment Act Gold Standard Evaluation.
As thousands of military veterans return from Operation Enduring Freedom and Operation Iraqi Freedom and seek to enter the civilian labor market, providing effective employment and training services to veterans is becoming increasingly important.
Using data collected from interviews with program staff and administrative data for the 28 local workforce investment areas randomly selected to participate in the Workforce Investment Act of 1998 (WIA) Adult and Dislocated Worker Programs Gold Standard Evaluation, we examined the characteristics of...
Low-performing schools in rural settings can face challenges common to all struggling schools, such as low student motivation and maintaining a qualified teaching staff.
This report focuses on a small sample of schools receiving SIG during the first year of the revamped SIG program (2010–11).
This evaluation brief focuses on the nine SIG schools that were in rural areas and how respondents in these schools perceived their rural context to influence specific turnaround activities.
REDF social enterprises are businesses that advance the public good and sell goods and services in order to provide jobs for hard-to-employ individuals. Initial findings from Mathematica's evaluation show that the enterprises served the hard to employ.
In summer 2010, state and local Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) and workforce agencies partnered to plan and administer summer youth employment initiatives.
This report examines implementation of the 2009 summer youth employment initiative, which placed more than 314,000 youth in summer jobs.
This paper examines how policy and structural changes states made in response to the Deficit Reduction Act of 2005 (DRA) may influence the level and composition of the TANF caseload.
The implementation evaluation of the Military Spouse Career Advancement Account Demonstration describes the early experiences of demonstration sites, the characteristics of spouses who received CAAs and their military sponsors, and spouses’ plans for using their CAAs as of when they enrolled in the demonstration.
In response to higher effective work participation rates that followed the reauthorization of the TANF program in 2005, states added new policies and programs that divert eligible families from the TANF system.
Entrepreneurship has long been a fundamental aspect of American society, serving as an important contributor to economic growth. However, only recently has entrepreneurship begun to develop as an academic field in U.S. colleges and universities.
In 1998, Mathematica began a five-year comprehensive evaluation of WFNJ to determine how clients were faring under the new reforms, how reform was implemented, and how communities responded to welfare reform and local challenges and opportunities.
Mathematica's latest report shows that 21st Century after-school programs, which currently spend $1 billion a year in federal funding, changed where and with whom students spent some of their after-school time.
Examines New Jersey’s efforts to identify and provide services to TANF clients with health and behavioral problems. Estimates the prevalence of specific problems, the extent to which line staff identify clients with these problems, and the fraction of clients referred to relevant services.
Discusses working TANF leavers' access to and participation in programs supporting (1) families' basic needs for items such as food and health insurance; (2) parents' efforts to work, by providing child care, transportation, and income supplements; and (3) workers' efforts to keep their jobs and advance...
The first-year findings reveal that while the 21st Century Community Learning Centers changed where and with whom students spent some of their after-school time and increased parental involvement, they had limited influence on academic performance, no influence on feelings of safety or on the number...
Examines challenges facing low-income parents, employers, and service providers in three high-poverty areas: Camden City, Cumberland County, and Newark. Finds that many low-income parents do not make use of tax credits, child care subsidies, and job placement services for which they are eligible.
Describes how various components of Mathematica's complex study fit together and explains perspectives and principles related to 1) distinguishing implemented programs from intended ones, 2) ensuring broad coverage to explore competing theories of effective programming, 3) collecting longitudinal information...
Examines how local agencies have adapted WFNJ/TANF to their own counties. Finds that all counties have implemented the basic program, county staff support the goals of WFNJ, and partnerships exist at the state and county levels.
This publication, the first major report on the Early Head Start national evaluation, focuses on early implementation experiences and tells the story of the 17 programs that helped launch the first nationwide program for low-income infants and toddlers.
This publication, the first major report on the Early Head Start national evaluation, focuses on early implementation experiences and tells the story of the 17 programs that helped launch the first nationwide program for low-income infants and toddlers.