Cynthia Miller

Cynthia Miller
Cynthia Miller
Senior Fellow
Economic Mobility, Housing, and Communities

Miller is an economist whose work focuses on policies and programs to increase the employment and earnings of low-wage workers and disadvantaged young adults. She is the project director for the Paycheck Plus evaluation, testing an expanded Earned Income Tax Credit for single workers without dependent children in New York City. She also leads the YouthBuild evaluation, which is studying the effects of YouthBuild on disadvantaged young people using data from nearly 80 programs around the country. She is a lead investigator for the Family Rewards Opportunity NYC Project, the first test of a Conditional Cash Transfer (CCT) program in the United States, and the CCT replication study funded by the Social Innovation Fund. She received her PhD in economics from Columbia University.

Projects

Products

Brief

Using In-State Employment Data to Evaluate Workforce Programs

A Case Study of the Portland NEWWS Site

Report

Understanding the Child Care and Early Education Workforce

The Need for More and Better Data

Brief

Retention and Credential Attainment

A Profile of Montana’s Child Care and Early Education Workforce

Issue Focus

Sector Strategies for Workforce Development

A Synthesis of the Research for Employers and Local Governments

Issue Focus

A Platform for Supporting Work: New Findings on the Jobs-Plus Employment Program in Public Housing

Report

Participation and Labor Market Impacts for the First 24 Sites to Replicate HUD’s Jobs Plus Program

Report

Long-Term Effects from the Original Jobs Plus Demonstration: Employment and Earnings for Public Housing Residents After 20 Years

Report

Possible Ways of Increasing College Access Among Adults from Underserved Backgrounds

A Study of College Transition Text-Based Messaging

Brief

Increasing the Earned Income Tax Credit for Childless Workers

A Synthesis of Findings from the Paycheck Plus Demonstration

Commentary

States Offer Supplemental Wages to Retain Childcare Workers

Report

An Earned Income Tax Credit That Works for Singles

Final Impact Findings from the Paycheck Plus Demonstration in Atlanta

Report

Understanding the Changing Nature of Work

Implications for Research and Evaluation to Inform Programs Serving Low-Income Populations

Issue Focus

Biden Wants to Boost the EITC for Workers Without Dependent Children—What Does the Research Say?

Working Paper

Increasing Community College Graduation Rates

A Synthesis of Findings on the ASAP Model from Six Colleges Across Two States

Report

Using Technology to Redesign College Advising and Student Support

Findings and Lessons from Three Colleges’ Efforts to Build on the iPASS Initiative

Issue Focus

Expanding the Earned Income Tax Credit as a Response to the COVID-19 Crisis

Report

A More Generous Earned Income Tax Credit for Singles

Interim Findings from the Paycheck Plus Demonstration in Atlanta

Report

Increasing Community College Graduation Rates with a Proven Model

Three-Year Results from the Accelerated Study in Associate Programs (ASAP) Ohio Demonstration

Report

Tools for Better Practices and Better Outcomes

Brief

A New Response to Child Support Noncompliance

Introducing the Procedural Justice-Informed Alternatives to Contempt Project