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Howard Bloom’s Remarks on Accepting the Peter H. Rossi Award
In a speech before the Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management Conference on November 5, 2010, Howard Bloom, MDRC’s Chief Social Scientist, accepted the Peter H. Rossi Award for Contributions to the Theory or Practice of Program Evaluation.
Strategies for Interpreting and Reporting Intervention Effects on Subgroups
This revised paper examines strategies for interpreting and reporting estimates of intervention effects for subgroups of a study sample. Specifically, the paper considers: why and how subgroup findings are important for applied research, the importance of prespecifying subgroups before analyses are conducted, and the importance of using existing theory and prior research to distinguish between subgroups for which study findings are confirmatory, as opposed to exploratory.
This paper is the first step in a study of instrumental variables analysis with randomized trials to estimate the effects of settings on individuals. The goal of the study is to examine the strengths and weaknesses of the approach and present them in ways that are broadly accessible to applied quantitative social scientists.
In some experimental evaluations of classroom- or school-level interventions, random assignment is conducted at the student level and the program is delivered at the higher level. This paper clarifies the correct causal interpretation of “program impacts” when this study design is used and discusses the implications and limitations of this research design. A real example is used to demonstrate the paper’s key points.
New Directions in Evaluations of American Welfare-to-Work and Employment Initiatives
Methodological Lessons from an Evaluation of Accelerated Schools
The Effects of Program Management and Services, Economic Environment, and Client Characteristics
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