A Study of Community Interaction

This study analyses selected aspects of the community impact of the Kitsap Community Action Program projects entitled \u27\u27The Public Awareness of Kitsap (PACK). PACK was initiated as a response to a downsizing of Department of Defense activities in Kitsap County. With PACK, the Kitsap Community Action Program (KCAP) joined hands with the Washington Service Corps in an effort funded by the Defense Conversion Assistance program to revitalize the local Bremerton and Kitsap County economies

Evaluation studies : review annual (volume 9)

800 p .; 23 cm

Evaluation studies : review annual (volume 5)

800 p .; 23 cm

The Human Capital Effect of General Education Development Certificates on Low Income Women

This study examines the impacts of the General Equivalency Diploma (GED) certificate and other secondary and post-secondary credentials on labor market outcomes for women. It uses data from the NLSY Mother and Children file and the Washington State Family Income Study (FIS). Correcting for sample selection and endogeneity bias of welfare recipiency, we find that one cannot distinguish between secondary dropouts, GED recipients, and secondary graduates in hours of work. Results on hourly wage rates are mixed. For the FIS sample, GED recipients, secondary graduates, and secondary dropouts earn the same wage. For the NLSY, GED recipients fare better than dropouts, but worse than secondary graduates. Job experience explains the wage gap between GED recipients and graduates, but its explanatory power is dominated by controlling for years of education or AFQT. Differences in years of education and AFQT scores are responsible for the observed wage differences among GED recipients, secondary graduates, and secondary dropouts.

The Youth Entitlement Demonstration: Subsidized Employment with a Schooling Requirement

The YIEPP offered a minimum wage job, part-time during the school year and full-time during the summer, to 16-19-year-olds from low-income households who had not as yet graduated from high school and who were enrolled in school. Our finding of large positive employment effects for this population is strong evidence that the unemployment of these youths is largely involuntary, due to demand deficiency at the minimum wage. We also find small positive school enrollment effects, and an employment displacement rate of 31.6 percent-that is, 31.6 percent of subsidized employment would have been available for the target population even in the absence of the program.