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Castells, Nina; Riccio, James – MDRC, 2020
This report introduces the MyGoals for Employment Success demonstration. MyGoals is an employment coaching program that helps participants set and achieve goals. It seeks to do so by explicitly focusing attention on participants' executive skills. MyGoals also offers participants a set of financial incentives to encourage, facilitate, and reward…
Descriptors: Coaching (Performance), Incentives, Employment Programs, Executive Function
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Hill, Heather D.; Morris, Pamela A.; Castells, Nina; Walker, Jessica Thornton – Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, 2011
This study uses data from an experimental employment program and instrumental variables (IV) estimation to examine the effects of maternal job loss on child classroom behavior. Random assignment to the treatment at one of three program sites is an exogenous predictor of employment patterns. Cross-site variation in treatment-control differences is…
Descriptors: Student Behavior, Employment Level, Social Behavior, Employment Programs