About MDRC
Jones joined MDRC in November of 2019 as a technical research analyst. His research supports projects related to federal welfare programs and long-term follow-up studies. He has experience in and knowledge of qualitative and quantitative research, programming, evaluation, outcome measurement, and federal social safety net programs. Jones has worked in the public sector for the entirety of his career and is passionate about using data to address systemic inequities. Jones earned a bachelor of science degree in economics from North Carolina State University.
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MDRC Publications
CommentaryApril, 2022In this commentary originally published by WorkShift, Deondre’ Jones describes how the WorkAdvance initiative helped reduce racial employment disparities for Black and Latino adults. He also explains important components that program providers may want to include to better support participants of color.
ReportAugust, 2021Evaluations of many social programs have not had access to the resources needed for measuring their long-term outcomes. This guide was developed to help researchers assess the feasibility and potential value of using administrative data to examine long-term program outcomes and describes steps for linking those data with evaluation data.
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Projects
Many federal employment and human service interventions are designed to have long-term effects, yet most evaluations end after only a few years, before the story is fully known. The Commission on Evidence-Based Policymaking ( CEP ), established in 2016, produced a report in 2017 calling for greater use of rigorous evidence from random assignment studies and good models...