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Synthesis Report: Registered Apprenticeship and Work-Based Learning Synthesis
Topic Area: Registered Apprenticeship and Work-Based Learning
Findings:
Sectoral training and employment programs that offered specific pathways for occupational training and other career supports improved education and training outcomes, and some improved employment or earnings.
Subsidized and transitional employment improved employment and earnings in the short term.
Registered Apprenticeship (RA) improved employment and earnings, but the evidence base is small.
WIA training services had more favorable impacts on employment and earnings outcomes in the long term than in the short term, though these outcomes were mixed overall.
- Deng, S. (2019). Did Medicaid expansion under the Affordable Care Act reduce the likelihood that people report employment status changes due to health, U.S., 2009-2017. (Doctoral dissertation).
Topic Area: Low-Income Adults
Study Type: Causal Impact Analysis
Hendra, R., Dillman, K-N., Hamilton, G., Lundquist, E., Martinson, K., Wavelet, M., Hill, A., & Williams, S. (2010). The Employment Retention and Advancement project: How effective are different approaches aiming to increase employment retention and advancement? Final impacts for twelve models. Washington, DC: Office of Planning, Research and Evaluation, Administration for Children and Families. [TAAG—Medford]
Topic Area: Low-Income Adults
Study Type: Causal Impact Analysis
Outcome Effectiveness:Hendra, R., Dillman, K-N., Hamilton, G., Lundquist, E., Martinson, K., Wavelet, M., Hill, A., & Williams, S. (2010). The Employment Retention and Advancement project: How effective are different approaches aiming to increase employment retention and advancement? Final impacts for twelve models. Washington, DC: Office of Planning, Research and Evaluation, Administration for Children and Families. [PROGRESS—Eugene]
Topic Area: Low-Income Adults
Study Type: Causal Impact Analysis
Outcome Effectiveness:- Fein, D., Beecroft, E., Long, D., & Catalfamo, A. (2000). College as a job advancement strategy: An early report of the New Visions Self-Sufficiency and Lifelong Learning Project. Bethesda, MD: Abt Associates Inc.
Topic Area: Low-Income Adults
Study Type: Implementation Analysis
- Ku, H. (2019). The effect of wage subsidies on piece rate workers: Evidence from the penny per pound program in Florida. Journal of Development Economics, 139, 122–134. doi:10.1016/j.jdeveco.2019.03.005
Topic Area: Low-Income Adults
Study Type: Causal Impact Analysis
Outcome Effectiveness: Almeida, R., & Carneiro, P. (2008). The return to firm investments in human capital. World Bank Social Protection and Labor Discussion Paper No. 0822.
Topic Area: Low-Income Adults
Study Type: Causal Impact Analysis
- Yang, E., Bernardi, A., Metz, R., Miller, C., Katz, L. F., & Isen, A. (2022). An Earned Income Tax Credit that works for singles: Final impact findings from the Paycheck Plus Demonstration in Atlanta. OPRE Report 2022-54. Washington, DC: Office of Planning, Research, and Evaluation, Administration for Children and Families, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. https://www.acf.hhs.gov/opre/report/earned-income-tax-credit-works-singles
Topic Area: Low-Income Adults
Study Type: Causal Impact Analysis
- Baird, M. D., Engberg, J., and Gutierrez, I. A. (2022). RCT evidence on differential impact of US job training programmes by pre-training employment status. Labour Economics, 75. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.labeco.2022.102140
Topic Area: Low-Income Adults
Study Type: Causal Impact Analysis
Bhargava, S., & Manoli, D. (2015). Psychological frictions and the incomplete take-up of social benefits: Evidence from an IRS field experiment. American Economic Review, 105(11), 3489-3529.
Topic Area: Behavioral Insights
Study Type: Causal Impact Analysis
Outcome Effectiveness:
