Publications
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Presentations
These are PowerPoint slides from presentations by MDRC staff. They may be
useful in summarizing main points and in helping structure your thinking about
the topics discussed.
  Improving Labor Market Success for Low-Wage Workers
MDRC's Research on Job Retention and Advancement Programs, Education Interventions, and Transitional Jobs Programs
Presented at a Workforce3One Webinar, sponsored by the U.S. Department of Labor's Employment and Training Administration
September 26, 2007
  A Whole ‘Nother World
Students Navigating Community College in
the Opening Doors Demonstration
Presented by Alissa Gardenhire-Crooks, Herbert Collado, and Barbara Ray
at the Ethnographic and Qualitative Research in Education Conference, Cedarville, OH, June 2006
  Instrumental Variables (IV) and Randomized Experiments
A Conceptual Framework
Presented by Howard S. Bloom, Lisa Gennetian, and Pamela Morris
January 2006
  Randomizing Groups to Evaluate Place-Based Programs

Presented by Howard S. Bloom
January 2006
  Children and Child Care
Findings from SSP and Comparable Experimental Studies of Welfare and Employment Programs
Presented by Lisa Gennetian and Pamela Morris, Ottawa, November 2005
  Turning Welfare into a Work Support
Six-Year Impacts on Parents and Children from the Minnesota Family Investment Program
Presented by Lisa Gennetian
University of Minnesota
August 2005
  Effective Ways to Move Welfare Recipients into Work and the Impacts of Welfare-to-Work on Adults and Children

Presented by John Wallace
American Public Human Services Association Summer Conference, Washington DC
July 2005
  Overview of the National Work Advancement and Support Center Demonstration

Presented by John Wallace
Cross-Site Meeting for the National Work Advancement and Support Center Demonstration, San Diego, California
January 2005
  WASC Research
Overview of the Learning Agenda
Presented by James Riccio
Cross-Site Meeting for the National Work Advancement and Support Center Demonstration, San Diego, California
January 2005
  The Employment Retention and Advancement (ERA) Project

Presented by Dan Bloom, MDRC
Performance Institute Conference
Employment Retention and Advancement Strategies
for Low-Wage Workers
April 2004
  ERA
Employment Retention and Advancement (ERA) Evaluation Project
Presented by MDRC
APPAM
November 2002
  Foundations for Success
Case Studies of How Urban School Systems Improve Student Achievement
Presented by Jason Snipes
MDRC
Grantmakers for Education Annual Conference
October 2002
  Improving Student Achievement in Urban School Districts
A Case Study of School Reform in Large Urban School Systems
Presented by MDRC for the Council of the Great City Schools
September 2002
  Welfare Reform in Cleveland
Project on Devolution and Urban Change
Presented by Thomas Brock MDRC
September 2002
  Opening Doors
Helping Low-Income Students Earn College Credentials
Presented by Melissa Wavelet
MDRC
September 2002
  National Evaluation of Welfare-to-Work Strategies
Moving People from Welfare to Work: Final Adult and Child Findings
Presented by Gayle Hamilton
42nd Annual Workshop of the National Association for Welfare Research and Statistics
August 2002
  Jobs First
Final Results from the Connecticut Jobs First Evaluation
MDRC Brown Bag
July 2002
  The Effects of Welfare Reform Policies on Low-Income Families and Children

Presented by Pamela Morris
MDRC
April 2001
  Serving the Hard to Employ
Some Knowledge, Lots of Questions
Presented by David Butler
MDRC
March 2001
  Research, Best Practice and Building Organizational Capacity

Presented by David Butler
MDRC
Rockefeller Foundation Conference on Strenghthening
Organizational Effectiveness in Workford Development
February 2001
  Reforming Welfare, Rewarding Work
Final Report on the Minnesota Family Investment Program
Presented by Virginia Knox
MDRC
September 2000
  Sustaining Employment
What Do We Know From Research and Practice?
Presented by David Butler
MDRC
Conference on Sustaining Employment in the New Millennium
February 2000
  Promoting Participation
How to Increase Invovlement in Welfare-to-Work Activities
Presented by Gayle Hamilton
MDRC
October 1999
  Developing Business Partnerships

Presented by Amy Brown
MDRC
1999 Govenors Conference on Workforce Development
October 1999

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