Emily Forrester studies programs and policies that support families and individuals to promote optimal development and health.
Since joining Mathematica in 2021, Forrester has worked on a range of projects in the areas of family support, behavioral health, and early child development. She directs projects focused on designing and executing impact evaluations to capture the impacts of prevention programs related to substance use and sexual health. She also leads quantitative analysis across projects and provides evaluation technical assistance to grantees, supporting the quality and rigor of local evaluations and performance measurement.
Forrester has published in journals such as Prevention Science, the Journal of Adolescent Health, and Journal of Family Psychology. She holds an Ph.D. in human development and family studies from The Pennsylvania State University.
This brief provides suggestions for those who have completed an impact evaluation but did not find favorable, statistically significant impacts. It provides suggestions for exploratory analyses to learn as much as you can from the data and how to acknowledge the exploratory analyses in reporting.
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