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Apprenticeships provide individuals with on-the-job training and contextualized learning. For over 80 years, US DOL has overseen the Registered Apprenticeship (RA) system, in partnership with State Apprenticeship Agencies. Today there are about...

How do you know if your program or initiative is effective? How do you gather proven practices or implement evidence-based practices? To respond to these questions, WSS presents three research and evaluation resources! The following resources...

Past recessions in the US have left invaluable lessons for policymakers. In the 1970s and early 1980s, the US experienced a rise in unemployment. As a result, the Department of Labor funded various projects to evaluate the cost-effectiveness of...

Introduces the plan for cost benefit analyses of six of the nine Pathways for Advancing Careers and Education programs; the goal of these analyses is to compare program costs to participants’ gains in employment and self-sufficiency and to help...

Examines and presents findings from multiple random assignment studies conducted in the 1980s and 1990s that tested programs designed to overcome work disincentives present in the Unemployment Insurance system.

Provides guidance to program managers and agencies on how to use existing administrative and secondary data sources to conduct lower-cost impact evaluations, with a focus on evaluating business technical assistance programs.

Reports the long-term impacts of financial aid on the enrollment, persistence, graduation, and in-college earnings of older college students in Texas using a quasi-experimental design based on linked data from public institutions of higher...

This report documents the three-year impact on the education, career, and well-being of the participants that were part of the random assignment for Washington State’s Integrated Basic Education and Skills Training (I-BEST) program. I-BEST was...

Examines the results of a randomized controlled trial of a two-pronged intervention designed to improve the academic and non-academic skills of disadvantaged youth falling behind or at risk of dropping out.

Compares the costs associated with two scenarios from the perspective of a for-profit employer, person with disability, taxpayer, and society as a whole: paying for supports to keep a recently disabled employee hired versus rehiring for that...