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.

Products

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Findings from Three New Studies of Youth Employment Programs

Report

Final Impact Findings from the Paycheck Plus Demonstration in New York City

Report

Four-Year Results from the National YouthBuild Evaluation

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Interim Findings from the Paycheck Plus Demonstration in New York City

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Interim Impact Findings from the YouthBuild Evaluation

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Findings from Family Rewards 2.0

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What Worked, What Didn’t

Brief

Year 1 of Paycheck Plus

Working Paper

Results from a Performance-Based Scholarship Experiment

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Early Lessons from Family Rewards 2.0

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The Continuing Story of the Opportunity NYC−Family Rewards Demonstration

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Early Findings from a Program for Housing Voucher Recipients in New York City

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Implementation and Final Impacts of the Work Advancement and Support Center (WASC) Demonstration

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Early Findings from a Performance-Based Scholarship Program at the University of New Mexico

Brief

Findings from the Employment Retention and Advancement Project

Report

Early Findings from New York City’s Conditional Cash Transfer Program

Report

The Employment Retention and Advancement Project