ERIC Number: ED603011
Record Type: Non-Journal
Publication Date: 2019-Nov
Pages: 17
Abstractor: ERIC
ISBN: N/A
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Cost Analysis of the Minnesota Subsidized and Transitional Employment Demonstration. The Subsidized and Transitional Employment Demonstration. MDRC Working Paper. OPRE Report 2019-108
Webster, Riley
Administration for Children & Families
The Minnesota Subsidized and Transitional Employment Demonstration (MSTED) is testing the effectiveness of subsidized employment for individuals enrolled in the Minnesota Family Investment Program (MFIP), Minnesota's Temporary Assistance for Needy Families program, who were unable to find employment after participating in the state's existing welfare-to-work program. To learn about the program's effects and costs, the Administration for Children and Families in the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services funded a random assignment evaluation of MSTED, in which individuals were randomly assigned to a program group that had access to MSTED services or to a control group that did not have access to MSTED services but could receive other welfare-to-work services. The purpose of the cost study is to determine what it cost to provide MSTED services to a single program group member once MSTED had reached a steady state of operation. The analysis estimates the costs per sample member in three categories: (1) MSTED costs; (2) MFIP costs; and (3) education and training costs. In the first year after random assignment when program group members who had been placed in subsidized employment were still receiving subsidized wages, program group members were more likely than control group members to have been employed. However, by the end of the second year after random assignment when subsidies had ended, program and control group members were employed at similar levels. This study is part of a larger demonstration funded by the Administration for Children and Families in the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, called the Subsidized and Transitional Employment Demonstration (STED), which is testing various subsidized employment strategies in several locations across the country.
Descriptors: Cost Effectiveness, Welfare Services, Employment Programs, Grants, Demonstration Programs, Program Effectiveness, State Programs, Family Programs, Federal Programs, Employment Services, Welfare Recipients, Adult Education, Vocational Education, Postsecondary Education
Administration for Children & Families. US Department of Health and Human Services, 370 L'Enfant Promenade SW, Washington, DC 20447. Web site: http://www.acf.hhs.gov/
Publication Type: Reports - Research
Education Level: Adult Education; Postsecondary Education
Audience: N/A
Language: English
Sponsor: Rockefeller Foundation
Authoring Institution: Administration for Children and Families (DHHS), Office of Planning, Research and Evaluation (OPRE); MDRC
Identifiers - Location: Minnesota
Identifiers - Laws, Policies, & Programs: Temporary Assistance for Needy Families
Grant or Contract Numbers: HHSP23320100029YC