Volume 20, Number 3 (Summer) 1985
Cavin, Edward, and Rebecca Maynard. 1985. "Short-Term Indicators of Employment Program Performance: Evidence from the Supported Work Program." Journal of Human Resources 20(3):331-345.
The objective of this paper is to assess the usefulness of short-term program performance data in judging the relative effectiveness of Supported Work and in targeting program resources to those most likely to benefit from them. The results reveal evidence of significant negative impacts for youth who left the program for negative reasons; the magnitude of the adverse impacts associated with negative terminations is related to length of program participation. These results indicate that performance of individual programs could be improved if short-run performance standards could effectively identify youth likely to leave for negative reasons.
The authors are Research Economist and Deputy Director of Research,
respectively. with Mathematica Policy Research. Inc.
This research was supported by the U.S. Department of Labor
(grant number 33-36- 75-01), through the sponsorship of the Manpower
Demonstration Research Corporation (MDRC). The views expressed in this paper,
however, are those of the authors and do not necessarily represent the views of
either the Department of Labor or MDRC. The authors would like to thank Vincent
Geraci for his comments on an earlier draft.
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