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,...An exciting new finding in the effort to prevent teen pregnancy (but a replication study is needed)
Highlights: We review a rare teen pregnancy prevention program—Teen Options to Prevent Pregnancy (TOPP)—that has credible evidence of a major effect on pregnancies and births. A recent federally-funded randomized controlled trial found that TOPP reduced the pregnancy...Showing 5 of 17 Reviews