Effects of the Nurturing Parenting Program Nurturing Skills for Families on Child Safety and Permanency

Many child welfare agencies use the Nurturing Parenting Program Nurturing Skills for Families (NPP) program to strengthen parenting skills.

Impact Evaluation of the Nurturing Parenting Program Nurturing Skills for Families

This report shares findings from an evaluation of the effectiveness of a parent education program in improving children’s welfare outcomes. The evaluation was conducted on behalf of the Arizona Department of Child Safety.

Integrating Healthy Marriage and Relationship Education into an Employment Training Program: The Impacts of Career STREAMS

This report describes the impacts of Career STREAMS, a program that integrated healthy marriage and relationship education into an employment training program. The study randomly assigned participants to the integrated program or to a control group offered a traditional employment-only program.

Economics of Foster Care

This paper describes tradeoffs in child welfare policy and provides background on the latest trends in foster care practice to highlight areas most in need of rigorous evidence, including efforts to prevent foster care on the demand side and to improve foster home recruitment on the supply side.

Is There a Foster Care-To-Prison Pipeline? Evidence from Quasi-Randomly Assigned Investigators

Foster care placement is strongly associated with crime—for example, close to one fifth of the prison population in the United States is comprised of former foster children—yet there is little evidence on whether this relationship is causal.

Using Promotion Power to Identify the Effectiveness of Public High Schools in the District of Columbia

This study estimated the promotion power of public high schools in the District of Columbia.

The Effect of Course Shutouts on Community College Students: Evidence from Waitlist Cutoffs

We provide the first causal evidence on the impacts of limited course availability at a community college. We find that students stuck on a waitlist and shut out of a course section were 22–28 percent more likely to take zero courses that term.

Temporary Stays and Persistent Gains: The Causal Effects of Foster Care

We estimate the effects of foster care on children’s outcomes by exploiting the quasi-random assignment of child welfare investigators in Michigan. We find that foster care improved children’s safety and educational outcomes.