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California
Final Report On The San Diego Job Search and Work Experience Demonstration
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1986. Barbara Goldman, Daniel Friendlander, David Long.
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California
Findings from the San Diego Job Search and Work Experience Demonstration
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1985. Barbara Goldman, Daniel Friedlander, Judith Gueron, David Long with Gayle Hamilton, Gregory Hoerz.
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California
Preliminary Findings from the San Diego Job Search and Work Experience Demonstration
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1984. Barbara Goldman, Judith Gueron, Joseph Ball, Marilyn Price with Daniel Friedlander, Gayle Hamilton.
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Can Nonexperimental Comparison Group Methods Match the Findings from a Random Assignment Evaluation of Mandatory Welfare-to-Work Programs?
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2002. Howard S. Bloom, Charles Michalopoulos, Carolyn J. Hill, Ying Lei.
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Career Academies
Impacts on Students' Engagement and Performance in High School
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2000. James J. Kemple, Jason C. Snipes.
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Career Academies
Building Career Awareness and Work-Based Learning Activities Through Employer Partnerships
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1999. James J. Kemple, Susan M. Poglinco, Jason C. Snipes.
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Career Academies
Impacts on Students’ Initial Transitions to Post-Secondary Education and Employment
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2001. James J. Kemple.
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Career Academies
Communities of Support for Students and Teachers—Emerging Findings from a 10-Site Evaluation
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1997. James J. Kemple.
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Career Academies
Early Implementation Lessons from a 10-Site Evaluation
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1996. James J. Kemple and JoAnn Leah Rock.
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Career Academies
Impacts on Labor Market Outcomes and Educational Attainment
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2004. James J. Kemple with Judith Scott-Clayton.
Career Academies produced substantial and sustained improvements in earnings of young men after high school, without limiting opportunities to attend college.
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Career Academies
Long-Term Impacts on Labor Market Outcomes, Educational Attainment, and Transitions to Adulthood
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2008. James J. Kemple with Cynthia J. Willner.
Eight-year findings on Career Academies — a popular high school reform that combines academics with career development opportunities — show that the programs produced sustained employment and earnings gains, particularly among young men. Career Academy participants were also more likely to be living independently with children and a spouse or a partner.
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Career Beginnings Impact Evaluation
Findings from a Program for Disadvantaged High School Students
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1990. George Cave, Janet Quint.
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Caring and Paying
What Fathers and Mothers Say About Child Support
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1992. Frank Furstenberg, Jr., Kay Sherwood, Mercer Sullivan.
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Changing Courses
Instructional Innovations That Help Low-Income Students Succeed in Community College
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2003. Richard Kazis, Marty Liebowitz.
This paper looks at curricular and program redesign strategies currently used by community colleges to speed nontraditional students’ advancement from lower levels of skill into credential programs and to shorten the time commitment required to earn a credential.
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Changing to a Work First Strategy
Lessons from Los Angeles County’s GAIN Program for Welfare Recipients
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1997. Evan Weissman.
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Charting a Path to Graduation
The Effect of Project GRAD on Elementary School
Student Outcomes in Four Urban Districts
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2006. Jason C. Snipes, Glee Ivory Holton, and Fred Doolittle.
This report describes the effects of Project GRAD, an ambitious education reform that targets high schools and the elementary and middle schools that feed into them, on student test scores in elementary schools in Houston, Texas; Atlanta, Georgia; Columbus, Ohio; and Newark, New Jersey.
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Child Care and Employment
Evidence from Random Assignment Studies of Welfare and Work Programs
Working Paper
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2003. Lisa A. Gennetian and Charles Michalopoulos.
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Child Support Enforcement
A Case Study
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1993. Dan Bloom with Bridget Dixon.
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Children in Public Housing Developments
An Examination of the Children at the Beginning of the Jobs-Plus Demonstration
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2002. Pamela Morris, Stephanie Jones with Jared Smith.
Children who live in public housing are commonly thought to be at greater risk of experiencing academic and behavioral problems than other low-income children, but this paper is among the few to explore empirically the characteristics and circumstances of these children.
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Choices and Life Circumstances
An Ethnographic Study of Project Redirection Teens
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1983. Sydelle Levy with William Grinker.
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Civic Engagement in Camden, New Jersey
A Baseline Portrait
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2007. Robert Lake, Kathe Newman, Philip Ashton, Richard Nisa, and Bradley Wilson.
This report, from the Camden Regional Equity Demonstration Project, documents the challenges in fostering meaningful and effective civic engagement in an ambitious redevelopment initiative.
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Closing the Aspirations-Attainment Gap
Implications for High School Reform
A Commentary from Chicago
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2006. Melissa Roderick.
In this paper, prepared for MDRC’s 2005 high school reform conference, Melissa Roderick, Co-Director of the Consortium on Chicago School Research, contends that the primary goal of high school reform should be to close the gap between the high aspirations of minority and low-income public high school students — most of whom want to go to college — and the low numbers who graduate with the skills they need.
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Community Service Jobs in Wisconsin Works
The Milwaukee County Experience
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2003. Andrea Robles, Fred Doolittle, Susan Gooden.
This report examines the implementation of the community service jobs component of Wisconsin's Temporary Aid for Needy Families program during the program’s first three years of operation.
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Comparing Outcomes for Los Angeles County’s HUD-Assisted and Unassisted CalWORKs Leavers
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U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
2003. Nandita Verma, Richard Hendra.
This report studies the post-welfare experiences of three groups — two that received federal housing assistance when they left the welfare rolls and an unassisted group that did not — to see how they differ with respect to their labor market outcomes, material well-being, and propensity to return to the welfare rolls or rely on other forms of public assistance.
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Complaint Resolution in the Context of Welfare Reform
How W-2 Settles Disputes
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2001. Suzanne Lynn.
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Conducting Classroom Observations in First Things First Schools
Working Paper
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2004. Angela Estacion, Teresa McMahon, Janet Quint, with Bernice Melamud and LaFleur Stephens.
Relying on 427 classroom observations conducted over a three-year period, this study traces changes in teachers’ instructional practices in the First Things First schools.
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Congressional Testimony by Gordon Berlin on Solutions to Poverty
Congressional Testimony
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2007. Gordon L. Berlin
In his testimony before the House Ways and Means Subcommittee on Income Security and Family Support, MDRC President Gordon Berlin argues that the most direct way to alleviate poverty is to tackle the legacy of falling wages, particularly for men with less education.
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Connecticut Post-Time Limit Tracking Study
Six-Month Survey Results
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1999. Jo Anna Hunter-Manns, Dan Bloom.
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Connecticut Post-Time Limit Tracking Study
Three-Month Survey Results
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1998. Jo Anna Hunter-Manns, Dan Bloom, Richard Hendra, Johanna Walter.
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Connecticut's Jobs First Program
An Analysis of Welfare Leavers
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2000. Laura Melton, Dan Bloom.
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Cost Analysis Step by Step
A How-To Guide for Planners and Providers of Welfare-to-Work and Other Employment and Training Programs.
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1998. David Greenberg, Ute Appenzeller.
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Course Taking, Test Preparation, and Career Academy Programs
Findings from a Field Study
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2002. Thomas J. Smith.
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Creating an Alternative to Welfare
First-Year Findings on the Implementation, Welfare Impacts, and Costs of the Self-Sufficiency Project
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Social Research and Demonstration Corporation.
1995. Tod Mijanovich, David Long.
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Creating New Hope
Implementation of a Program to Reduce Poverty and Reform Welfare
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1997. Thomas Brock, Fred Doolittle, Veronica Fellerath, Michael Wiseman with David Greenberg and Robinson Hollister, Jr.
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