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Gayle Hamilton
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Senior Fellow
Low-Wage Workers and Communities Policy Area
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Hamilton has designed, implemented, and directed numerous large-scale evaluations and demonstrations of programs intended to improve the well-being of low-income populations. She currently serves as project director of the Employment Retention and Advancement (ERA) evaluation, a study that mounted — in 18 sites — random assignment tests of innovative strategies to help low-income workers maintain and advance in their jobs. In addition, she leads the implementation research efforts for the United Kingdom’s Employment Retention and Advancement project, which is the first large-scale randomized social policy experiment undertaken in the U.K. A nationally recognized expert on the measurement and analysis of participation in welfare-to-work programs, she previously managed the National Evaluation of Welfare-to-Work Strategies, a random assignment study of more than 55,000 adults and 11,000 children in seven sites. Since joining MDRC in 1983, Hamilton has authored many reports and syntheses and has presented research results at numerous conferences and briefings for program operators, government officials, policy analysts, and members of the press.
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MDRC Publications
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