This discussion provides insight on how to maintain a healthy pipeline of survey statisticians.

As part of a national initiative called Elev8, Atlantic Philanthropies provided funds to community organizations to work with five Chicago schools to provide a wide range of programs and economic services to families. A multi-year evaluation of the initiative found a small group of parents who...

The Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) provides nutrient-dense foods, nutrition education, and referral to health care services for low-income pregnant women, postpartum women, infants, and children up to age five who are at nutritional risk. This study...

Surveys collecting behavioral frequency information request either numerically or vaguely quantified frequency reports. Using data from an experiment embedded in the 2006 National Survey of Student Engagement, this working paper finds that the structure of measurement models based on vaguely and...

Reports initial findings from a synthesis and reanalysis of all available evidence on whether quasi-experimental evaluation designs produced unbiased estimates of the impacts of education, training, and welfare programs. This methodological paper tries to understand conditions under which...