About MDRC
Hsueh is currently one of the lead investigators of the Supporting Healthy Marriage (SHM) project, an evaluation of a marriage education program targeting low-income, racially and ethnically diverse married couples. She is also the principal investigator of a complementary study within the SHM project, funded by the William T. Grant Foundation, that uses a daily diary measurement approach to catalog everyday family interactions among mothers, fathers, and adolescent children. In the past she led an evaluation of an early childhood, two-generational program enhanced with parental employment and educational services. Hsueh received her Ph.D. in developmental and community psychology from New York University.
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MDRC Publications
Introducing ExCEL P-3, a Study from the Expanding Children’s Early Learning Network
July, 2017The ExCEL Network, a collaboration of researchers, preschool providers, and local officials, is exploring how benefits of early childhood interventions persist. The ExCEL P-3 project examines whether one preschool program, reinforced by a system-wide alignment of instruction into elementary school, has impacts on a range of skills through third grade.
Exploratory Findings from the Head Start CARES Demonstration
December, 2014This report suggests that evidence-based approaches can improve 3-year-olds’ social-emotional competence in mixed-age preschool classrooms. While the findings are promising, further research is needed to confirm the results and to better understand how these benefits are generated.
Exploratory Subgroup Analysis in the Supporting Healthy Marriage Evaluation
March, 2014This paper explores effects of the Supporting Healthy Marriage (SHM) program for six subgroups of couples in the study. SHM’s impacts were generally consistent across these subgroups, though some evidence suggests that couples whose marriages were more distressed at study entry may have benefited more from SHM.
Final Impacts from the Supporting Healthy Marriage Evaluation
January, 2014Supporting Healthy Marriage (SHM) was a yearlong voluntary marriage education program to help strengthen couples’ relationships. SHM had small sustained positive effects on marital quality more than a year after the program ended but did not achieve its objectives of leading more couples to stay together or improving children’s well-being.
Final Results of the Hard-to-Employ Demonstration and Evaluation Project and Selected Sites from the Employment Retention and Advancement Project
May, 201242-Month Impacts from the Kansas and Missouri Sites of the Enhanced Services for the Hard-to-Employ Demonstration and Evaluation Project
February, 2012Two Early Head Start programs were enhanced with formalized services to proactively address parents’ employment, educational, and self-sufficiency needs. A random assignment evaluation finds limited impacts for the full sample but some positive effects on employment and earnings for families who had an infant or who were expecting a child at the outset of the study.
February, 2012This report, which presents 12-month impact results from a demonstration designed to strengthen marriages among low-income married couples with children, shows that the program produced a consistent pattern of small, positive effects on multiple aspects of couples’ relationships, including measures of relationship quality, psychological and physical abuse, and adult individual psychological distress.
Eighteen-Month Impacts from the Kansas and Missouri Sites of the Enhanced Services for the Hard-to-Employ Demonstration and Evaluation Project
March, 2011The report offers implementation and early impact findings from a random assignment evaluation of two Early Head Start programs that were enhanced with formalized services to proactively address parents’ employment, educational, and self-sufficiency needs.
An Introduction to the Enhanced Services for the Hard-to-Employ Demonstration and Evaluation Project
October, 2007This demonstration is evaluating four diverse strategies designed to improve employment and other outcomes for low-income parents and others who face serious barriers to employment.
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Other Publications
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Projects
JoAnn Hsueh, Sharon Huang, Sharon Rowser, Meghan McCormick, Michelle Maier, Rebecca Unterman, Nina Castells, Barbara Condliffe, Jocelyn Page, Amena Sengal, Sonia Drohojowska, Ilana BlumWith broad support across the political spectrum, states and localities throughout the country are expanding preschool programs for low-income children.
Virginia Knox, Cindy Redcross, Dan Bloom, JoAnn Hsueh, Rekha Balu, Dina A. R. Israel, Erika Lundquist, Electra Small, Michelle S. Manno, Rebecca Behrmann, Samantha Wulfsohn, Ann Bickerton, Douglas Phillips, Patrizia Mancini, Matthew AuFathers play a unique role in their children’s lives and development, but some fathers face barriers to positive involvement with their children. Responsible Fatherhood programs aim to improve the well-being of low-income fathers and their children by addressing these barriers.
Virginia Knox, Charles Michalopoulos, Sharon Rowser, JoAnn Hsueh, Helen Lee, Desiree Principe Alderson, Dina A. R. Israel, Erika Lundquist, Kristin Porter, Electra Small, Rebecca Behrmann, Anne Warren, Samantha Xia, Kelly Saunders, Ilana Blum, Jessica Kopsic, Noemi Altman, Caroline MageAdverse birth outcomes result in significant emotional and economic costs for families and communities. One promising avenue for helping expectant women is home visiting programs, which work with parents to promote prenatal care and improve infant health.
Virginia Knox, Charles Michalopoulos, Sharon Rowser, JoAnn Hsueh, Helen Lee, Desiree Principe Alderson, Dina A. R. Israel, Erika Lundquist, Kristin Porter, Electra Small, Carolyn Hill, Rebecca Behrmann, Ximena Portilla, Anne Warren, Samantha Xia, Hiwote Getaneh, Kelly Saunders, Ilana BlumHome visiting programs operate around the country to prevent child maltreatment, improve maternal and child health outcomes, and increase school readiness.
Pamela Morris, Shira Kolnik Mattera, Electra Small, Nina Castells, Sharon Rowser, Barbara S. Goldman, JoAnn Hsueh, Ximena Portilla, Frieda Molina, Howard Bloom, Patrizia Mancini, Robert MesikaHead Start, which serves nearly 1 million low-income children, is the nation’s largest federally sponsored early childhood education program.
Cindy Redcross, Dan Bloom, Lauren Cates, JoAnn Hsueh, Dina A. R. Israel, Charles Michalopoulos, Pamela Morris, Johanna Walter, Sally Dai, Ximena PortillaFueled by a strong economy and passage of the 1996 federal welfare law, which imposed new work requirements and time limits on cash benefits, welfare caseloads declined precipitously during the 1990s.
JoAnn Hsueh, Virginia Knox, Desiree Principe Alderson, Barbara S. Goldman, Erika Lundquist, Charles Michalopoulos, Jocelyn Page, Sharon Rowser, Electra Small, Helen Lee, Lyndsay McDonough, Kristen Faucetta , Meghan McCormick, Adam Greeney, Robert Mesika, Noemi AltmanThe Supporting Healthy Marriage project is the first large-scale, multisite, multiyear, rigorous test of marriage education programs for low-income married couples.