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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.
Bruno, L., & Pistorino, C. (2007). Youth Opportunity grant initiative: process evaluation final report. Washington, DC: Decision Information Resources, Inc.
Topic Area: Opportunities for Youth
Study Type: Implementation Analysis
Learning from the Youth Opportunity experience: Building delivery capacity in distressed communities
Harris, L. (2006). Learning from the Youth Opportunity experience: Building delivery capacity in distressed communities. Washington, DC: Center for Law and Social Policy.
Topic Area: Opportunities for Youth
Study Type: Descriptive Analysis
Bellis, D. D., & General, A. O. (2005). Youth Opportunity grants: Lessons can be learned from program, but Labor needs to make data available. Washington, DC: Government Accountability Office.
Topic Area: Opportunities for Youth
Study Type: Descriptive Analysis
Lewis-Charp, H., Soukamneuth, S. & Goger, A.(2005). Youth Opportunity Grant Initiative: Ethnographic evaluation final report. Houston, TX: Decision Information Resources, Inc.
Topic Area: Opportunities for Youth
Study Type: Descriptive Analysis
Cook, P., Dodge, K., Farkas, G., Fryer, R., Guryan, J., Ludwig, J. Mayer, S., Pollack, H., & Steinberg, L. (2014). The (surprising) efficacy of academic and behavioral intervention with disadvantaged youth: Results from a randomized experiment in Chicago. Cambridge, MA: National Bureau of Economic Research.
Topic Area: Opportunities for Youth
Study Type: Causal Impact Analysis
Outcome Effectiveness:- Education and skills gains-Mod/high-Favorable impactsEducation and skills gains
Gan, K., Jastrzab, J., Jefferson, A., Schneider, G., & Schlager, C. (2011). Youth Corps emerging practices for education and employment. Prepared for the Corporation for National and Community Service. Cambridge, MA: Abt Associates Inc.
Topic Area: Opportunities for Youth
Study Type: Descriptive Analysis
- Copson, E., Kappil, T., Gardiner, K., Clarkwest, A., Engle, H., Trutko, A., Trutko, J., Glosser, A., Webster, R., Kuehn, D., Lerman, R., & Shakesprere, J. (2021). Implementing registered apprenticeship programs: Experiences of 10 American Apprenticeship Initiative grantees. Report prepared for the U.S. Department of Labor, Employment and Training Administration. Rockville, MD: Abt Associates.
Topic Area: Registered Apprenticeship and Work-Based Learning
Study Type: Implementation Analysis
- Weigand, A., Manno, M., Leshnick, S., Trekson, L., Geckeler, C., Lewis-Charp, H., Sinicrope, C., Clark, M. & Nicholson, B. (2015) Adapting to local context: Findings from the YouthBuild evaluation implementation study. MDRC.
Topic Area: Low-Income Adults
Study Type: Implementation Analysis
Holcomb, P., Ziegler, J., & Laird, E. (2011). Beyond a summer work experience: The Recovery Act 2009 Post-Summer Youth Employment Initiative. Princeton, NJ: Mathematica Policy Research.
Topic Area: Opportunities for Youth
Study Type: Implementation Analysis