Programs that increase college attendance and completion by low-income students: Recent RCT findings
Highlights: In recent years, there has been a dramatic increase in the number of high-quality randomized controlled trials (RCTs) of programs aimed at helping low-income young adults attend and complete college. A key driver of this growth in postsecondary RCTs has...Yes, some blockbuster RCT findings successfully replicate: Per Scholas employment/training produces major earnings gains for low-income workers
Highlights: In social policy as in medicine, many positive initial research findings for a program or treatment are not reproduced in subsequent rigorous evaluations. The good news is that some important positive findings do reproduce. This report highlights a recent...Credible, actionable evidence on how to prevent sexual assault on university campuses
Highlights: We highlight recent results of a randomized controlled trial (RCT) of a sexual assault resistance program for first-year female university students. The RCT found that the program nearly halved the incidence of rape over a 12-month period, from 9.8 percent...Disappointing findings on Conditional Cash Transfers as a tool to break the poverty cycle in the United States
Highlights: Conditional cash transfer (CCT) programs, which have been implemented in more than 60 countries, provide cash payments to poor families contingent on their meeting certain conditions such as using preventive healthcare, keeping children enrolled in school,...Showing 5 of 18 Reviews