Based on four rounds of annual follow-up surveys with an early group of NJ TANF recipients, this brief can help inform recent policy debates related to welfare and marriage. The study found that marriage is relatively rare for TANF recipients, with only about 1 in 10 married and living with a...

This report presents first-year evaluation findings for the City University of New York project, which served youth ages 14 through 19 in Bronx County from August 2006 to May 2010. The program was well implemented and had statistically significant impacts on several important outcomes, including...

Welfare reform in Iowa succeeded in getting welfare recipients into training and then into jobs. However, the reforms did not always succeed in raising family income and may have reduced it for some families. Furthermore, researchers noted negative impacts on some measures of family and child...

A Research Report from the School Dropout Demonstration Assistance Program Evaluation.

The Social Security Administration's Youth Transition Demonstration Projects: Analysis Plan for Interim Reports. In partnership with the Social Security Administration, Mathematica is leading an evaluation of the Youth Transition Demonstration, an initiative to evaluate strategies to help youth...

This report presents first-year evaluation findings for the Colorado Youth WINS (Work Incentive Network of Supports) project, which served youth in four counties from August 2006 to December 2009. Using process analysis, the report found Youth WINS, as implemented, deviated from the program...

This report describes the research and policy context for the evaluation, logic model underlying the projects, and selection of the random assignment sites and enrollment of youth. It also presents comprehensive designs for the process, cost, impact, and benefit-cost analyses, and concludes with...