Homeownership and a college education have long been considered part of the American Dream. In order to achieve homeownership, many Americans took out risky loans and sub-prime mortgages in the late 1990s and early 2000s. However, when housing prices plummeted, many homeowners were forced into...

Using matched administrative data, this paper estimates the program effects of Minnesota's WIA Title I‐B Adult program to make two contributions to the literature. First, this paper applies a wide range of non‐experimental approaches and generates similar estimates of program effects that...