Describes the characteristics of the roughly 10,000 participants who enrolled in the 18 SPI projects from January 1999 through March 2003. Participants faced significant barriers to employment, including severe disabilities and limited education and employment experience. Two-thirds were...

Each year, the U.S. college system grants twice as many bachelor’s degrees to African American females as males. Large gender gaps favoring women also exist for other groups—on average, our college system awards 35 percent more B.A.s to females than males across all racial and ethnic...

This article reviewed 28 quantitative studies comparing outcomes for women who did and did not receive prenatal home visiting. More evidence suggests that prenatal home visiting may improve the use of prenatal care, whereas less evidence exists that it improves neonatal birth weight or...