Considerable policy interest has developed in assessing the performance of employment and training programs, most notably the Comprehensive Employment and Training Act. (CETA) and the Job Training Partnership Act (JTPA). This paper develops a production frontier model for the Employment Service...

Program evaluations often are based on data drawn from samples of observation units that are not simple random samples. In particular, samples often may be clustered to maximize the number of observations that can be obtained, given project cost constraints. However, clustering gives rise to...

The Employment Opportunity Pilot Project (EOPP) was instituted to determine whether a program that provided job-search assistance and subsidized employment and training could succeed in increasing the employment and, hence, reducing the welfare dependence of adults in low-income families with...

The objective of this paper is to assess the usefulness of short-term program performance data in judging the relative effectiveness of Supported Work and in targeting program resources to those most likely to benefit from them. The results reveal evidence of significant negative impacts for...