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Synthesis Report: Research Synthesis: Opportunities for Youth
Topic Area: Opportunities for Youth
Findings:
Successful programs often involved a substantial time commitment from participating youth.
Many successful programs involved a job placement component or job search assistance.
Positive impacts tended to be realized in the short term and fade over time.
More information is needed on the replicability of some programs.
Topic Area: Career Academies
Findings:
Career Academies produced strong and sustained increases in students’ post-high school earnings. These impacts were concentrated among young men.
Career Academies did not increase educational attainment.
Implementing all three program components proved somewhat challenging.
Synthesis Report: Behavioral Finance Synthesis: Findings
Topic Area: Behavioral Finance: Retirement
Findings:
People have relatively limited knowledge about saving for retirement and can be induced to save more when provided with additional information.
Making retirement more salient, by having people think of themselves in retirement or providing a target retirement date, can increase intentions to save and alter investment choices.
People can become overwhelmed by the number of investment options they face; when this occurs, they tend to use simple rules to make decisions.
Watrus, B., & Fercho, H. (2015). Oregon Credentials, Acceleration and Support for Employment (CASE) evaluation report: Results, key issues and implications for policy, practice and systems. Retrieved from https://www.roguecc.edu/Programs/CareerPathways/pdf/CASE%20final%20evaluation%20report_Final.pdf
Topic Area: Community College
Study Type: Causal Impact Analysis
Outcome Effectiveness:- Coffman, L. C., Conlon, J. J., Featherstone, C. R., & Kessler, J. B. (2019). Liquidity affects job choice: Evidence from Teach For America. The Quarterly Journal of Economics, 134(4), 2203–2236. doi:10.1093/qje/qj018 [Control group v. Treatment group (additional grant award)]
Study Type: Causal Impact Analysis
Outcome Effectiveness: Crumpton, J. A. (2019). WIOA impacts on community college student success (Doctoral dissertation). Retrieved from ProQuest Dissertations and Theses database. (UMI No. 13861007).
Topic Area: Community College
Study Type: Causal Impact Analysis
Outcome Effectiveness:- Cengiz, D., Dube, A., Lindner, A., & Zipperer, B. (2019). The effect of minimum wages on low-wage jobs. Quarterly Journal of Economics, 134(3), 1405–1454. doi:10.1093/qje/qjz014
Topic Area: Low-Income Adults
Study Type: Causal Impact Analysis
- Snyder, T., Rinkevich, S., & Yuan, W. (2019). Do minimum wage increases affect SNAP benefits? B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis & Policy, 19(2). doi:10.1515/bejeap-2018-0045
Topic Area: Low-Income Adults
Study Type: Causal Impact Analysis
Outcome Effectiveness: Smith, T. (2019). Reflections on Accelerating CTE: Final evaluation report. Washington, DC: JFF.
Topic Area: Community College
Study Type: Causal Impact Analysis
Outcome Effectiveness:- Boichuk, J. P., Bommaraju, R., Ahearne, M., Kraus, F., & Steenburgh, T. J. (2019). Managing laggards: The importance of a deep sales bench. Journal of Marketing Research, 56(4), 652–665.
Study Type: Causal Impact Analysis
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