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How Communities Can Connect Economic And Skills Development, Timothy J. Bartik, Brad J. Hershbein, Michelle Miller-Adams
How Communities Can Connect Economic And Skills Development, Timothy J. Bartik, Brad J. Hershbein, Michelle Miller-Adams
Presentations
No abstract provided.
Workforce Data (And Knowledge) Under Pressure, Joshua D. Hawley
Workforce Data (And Knowledge) Under Pressure, Joshua D. Hawley
Employment Research Newsletter
No abstract provided.
Cost Estimations Of Potential Scholarship Programs For The Rockford Promise, George Erickcek
Cost Estimations Of Potential Scholarship Programs For The Rockford Promise, George Erickcek
Reports
This brief report presents a 10-year cost forecast for three possible Rockford Promise Scholarship programs: (1) A program that provides full, two-year, tuition scholarships for all Rockford Public School graduates who select to attend the Rock Valley College; (2) The scholarship is available for eligible students who enroll full-time at a partnering college or university in the fall following their high school graduation; and (3) The provision of an annual $4,000 scholarship for all Rockford Public School high school graduates for up to 4 years of college. The report concludes with comments on how the Rockford Promise may best achieve …
Data Science In The Public Interest: Improving Government Performance In The Workforce, Joshua D. Hawley
Data Science In The Public Interest: Improving Government Performance In The Workforce, Joshua D. Hawley
Upjohn Press
This book is about how new and underutilized types of big data sources can inform public policy decisions related to workforce development. Hawley describes how government is currently using data to inform decisions about the workforce at the state and local levels. He then moves beyond standardized performance metrics designed to serve federal agency requirements and discusses how government can improve data gathering and analysis to provide better, up-to-date information for government decision making.
Using Nonexperimental Methods To Address Noncompliance, Daniel Litwok
Using Nonexperimental Methods To Address Noncompliance, Daniel Litwok
Upjohn Institute Working Papers
The analysis compares estimates of the incremental impact for those who receive HPOG with a program enhancement to the standard HPOG program. The experimental benchmark for the incremental impact comes from two-stage least squares with random assignment as an instrumental variable for enhancement take-up. Then, ignoring the randomly assigned conditions, the analysis estimates the counterfactual for those who “take up” the enhancement using ordinary least squares and inverse propensity weighting. The analysis also tests whether adding information that is only available due to the experiment—who complied with their randomization status and who did not—improves the nonexperimental estimates. The analysis compares …
Investing In Community: A Playbook For Connecting Economic And Skills Development, Timothy J. Bartik, Brad J. Hershbein, Michelle Miller-Adams, Lee Adams, Amy Meyers, Bridget F. Timmeney
Investing In Community: A Playbook For Connecting Economic And Skills Development, Timothy J. Bartik, Brad J. Hershbein, Michelle Miller-Adams, Lee Adams, Amy Meyers, Bridget F. Timmeney
Reports
No abstract provided.