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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.
- Fein, D. & Hamadyk, J. (2018). Bridging the opportunity divide for low-income youth: Implementation and early impacts of the Year Up program (Report No. 2018-65). Washington, DC: Office of Planning, Research, and Evaluation, Administration for Children and Families, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
Topic Area: Registered Apprenticeship and Work-Based Learning
Study Type: Causal Impact Analysis
Outcome Effectiveness:- Earnings and wages-Low-Favorable impactsEarnings and wages
- Education and skills gains-Low-Favorable impactsEducation and skills gains
- Employment-Low-Favorable impactsEmployment
- Public benefits receipt-Low-Favorable impactsPublic benefit receipt
The 2021 net impact and cost-benefit evaluation of Washington state’s workforce development programs
Dula, C. (2021). The 2021 net impact and cost-benefit evaluation of Washington state’s workforce development programs. Washington Workforce Training and Education Coordinating Board. [WIA/WIOA Youth Program]Topic Area: Registered Apprenticeship and Work-Based Learning
Study Type: Causal Impact Analysis
Outcome Effectiveness:- Earnings and wages-Mod/high-No impactsEarnings and wages
- Employment-Mod/high-Favorable impactsEmployment
- Public benefits receipt-Mod/high-No impactsPublic benefit receipt
- Kim, Y., Ju, E., Rosenberg, R., & Farmer, E. B. M. (2019). Estimating the effects of independent living services on educational attainment and employment of foster care youth. Children and Youth Services Review, 96, 294-301.
Topic Area: Opportunities for Youth
Study Type: Causal Impact Analysis
- Davis, J. M., & Heller, S. B. (2020). Rethinking the benefits of youth employment programs: The heterogeneous effects of summer jobs. Review of Economics and Statistics, 102(4), 664-677. https://doi.org/10.1162/rest_a_00850 [2013 Program]
Topic Area: Opportunities for Youth
Study Type: Causal Impact Analysis
Outcome Effectiveness:- Earnings and wages-Mod/high-No impactsEarnings and wages
- Education and skills gains-Mod/high-No impactsEducation and skills gains
- Employment-Mod/high-Favorable impactsEmployment
Cave, G., Bos, H., Doolittle, F. & Toussaint, C. (1993). JOBSTART: Final report on a program for school dropouts. New York: MDRC.
Topic Area: Opportunities for Youth
Study Type: Causal Impact Analysis
Outcome Effectiveness:- Earnings and wages-Mod/high-Unfavorable impactsEarnings and wages
- Education and skills gains-Mod/high-Favorable impactsEducation and skills gains
- Employment-Mod/high-Unfavorable impactsEmployment
- Geckeler, C., Betesh, H., Diaz, H., Folsom, L., Kim, H., & Paprocki, A. (2017). Helping dropout youth find education and employment: Final impact report for the evaluation of the Los Angeles Reconnections Career Academy (LARCA) program. Oakland, CA: Social Policy Research Associates.
Topic Area: Low-Income Adults
Study Type: Causal Impact Analysis
Outcome Effectiveness:- Earnings and wages-Mod/high-Unfavorable impactsEarnings and wages
- Education and skills gains-Mod/high-Favorable impactsEducation and skills gains
- Employment-Mod/high-Unfavorable impactsEmployment
- Public benefits receipt-Mod/high-Unfavorable impactsPublic benefit receipt
- The Center for Youth and Communities. (2019). Integrating service into YouthBuild AmeriCorps HSE and diploma granting programs. Brandeis University, Heller School for Social Policy and Management. [HSE-only Programs]
Topic Area: Opportunities for Youth
Study Type: Causal Impact Analysis
- The Center for Youth and Communities. (2019). Integrating service into YouthBuild AmeriCorps HSE and diploma granting programs. Brandeis University, Heller School for Social Policy and Management. [Diploma-only Programs]
Topic Area: Opportunities for Youth
Study Type: Causal Impact Analysis
Miller, C., Bos, J., Porter, K., Tseng, M., Doolittle, F., Tanguay, D., & Vencill, M. (2003). Working with disadvantaged youth: Thirty-month findings from the evaluation of the Center for Employment Training replication sites. New York: MDRC.
Topic Area: Opportunities for Youth
Study Type: Causal Impact Analysis
Outcome Effectiveness:- Earnings and wages-Mod/high-No impactsEarnings and wages
- Employment-Mod/high-No impactsEmployment
- Public benefits receipt-Mod/high-No impactsPublic benefit receipt