Housing and Communities

We develop and study housing assistance policies, community revitalization initiatives, and “place-based” employment programs that seek to improve the economic mobility of people who live in under-resourced neighborhoods.

Methodological Publication

Extending the Reach of Randomized Social Experiments

New Directions in Evaluations of American Welfare-to-Work and Employment Initiatives

Report

Explaining the Minnesota Family Investment Program's Impacts by Housing Status

Testimony

Experimentation and Social Welfare Policymaking in the United States

Report

Exceptions to the Rule

The Implementation of 24-Month Time-Limit Extensions in W-2

Report

Evaluating Two Welfare-to-Work Program Approaches

Two Year Findings on the Labor Force Attachment and Human Capital Development Programs in Three Sites

Report

Evaluating Two Approaches to Case Management

Implementation, Participation Patterns, Costs, and Three-Year Impacts of the Columbus Welfare-to-Work Program

Report

Evaluating Alternative Welfare-to-Work Approaches

Two-Year Impacts for Eleven Programs

Report

Encouraging Work, Reducing Poverty

The Impact of Work Incentive Programs

Report

Employment Retention and Advancement (ERA) Demonstration

Delivery, Take-Up, and Outcomes of In-Work Training Support for Lone Parents

Report

Effects of Welfare and Employment Policies on Young Children

New Findings on Policy Experiments Conducted in the Early 1990s

Working Paper

Effects of Welfare and Anti-Poverty Policies on Adult Economic and Middle-Childhood Outcomes Differ for the "Hardest to Employ"

Report

Early Findings on Program Impacts in Three Sites

Report

Does Making Work Pay Still Pay?

An Update on the Effects of Four Earnings Supplement Programs on Employment, Earnings, and Income

Working Paper

Does Child Care Assistance Matter?

The Effects of Welfare and Employment Programs on Child Care

Working Paper

Housing and Communities

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