839 research outputs found
Money on the Table: State Initiatives to Improve Financial Aid Participation
Describes media, technology, and outreach campaigns to improve financial aid participation at community colleges in California, Connecticut, North Carolina, and Texas. Highlights efforts to increase low-income and minority student enrollment
Creating Careers, Improving Care: A Win-Win Economic Advancement Strategy for Certified Nursing Assistants in Long-Term Care
Examines strategies for developing training and education programs that will facilitate career advancement for nursing assistants. Explores the link between recruitment, retention, and advancement practices and the quality of care provided by caregivers
Behavioral Economics and Workforce Development: A Review of the Literature from Labor Economics and the Broader Field
Literature Reviewhere is mutual benefit for employers and workers when workers improve their skills beyond the minimum requirements for their position—a fact not lost on employers, many of who are willing to provide education and training opportunities to staff, including frontline workers. These opportunities typically include on-the-job-training, tuition reimbursement for postsecondary courses, and paid leave to attend classes. Despite often generous budgets for these activities, relatively few workers take advantage of these opportunities, potentially limiting increases in productivity, wages and longer-term career advancement (Tompson, Benz, Agiesta, & Junius, 2013). This dilemma raises an interesting research question: Can emerging lessons from behavioral science experiments be applied to cutting the Gordian Knot of worker participation in education and training programs?
This review of current literature on the topic is intended to explore the strengths and limitations of applying tools of behavioral sciences to increase the participation and completion rate of training for lower-wage, frontline incumbent workers in ways that benefit both workers and sponsoring firms.The Hitachi FoundationRay Marshall Center for the Study of Human Resource
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2018 Nuru Ethiopia Impact Report
Since 2016, the Ray Marshall Center has been providing technical assistance to support Nuru International’s monitoring and evaluation (M&E) team. The Center’s experience and expertise supports Nuru’s work in Kenya, Ethiopia, and Nigeria by demonstrating the effectiveness and robustness of its integrated approach to addressing poverty. The integrated Nuru model seeks to address four key areas of need: 1) food insecurity, 2) inability to cope with economic shocks, 3) unnecessary disease and death, and 4) lack of quality education for children.
In Ethiopia and Kenya, Nuru M&E utilizes a quasi-experimental design with the intent of measuring the effectiveness of the four impact programs as well as the overarching impact of these programs on multidimensional poverty. By following a panel of farmers from a non-intervention group as well as the same cohort of Nuru households over time, Nuru M&E evaluates whether or not any observed changes in well-being can be attributed to Nuru programming. Additionally, M&E analyzes key performance indicators to ensure programs track toward their goals.
Since 2017, RMC researchers have been responsible for carrying out data analyses for the Nuru M&E team and studying the outcomes and impacts of Nuru’s programming in Ethiopia. Findings from the analyses are used by the Nuru M&E team to inform program planning and decision making. In this report, RMC researchers present results from an outcomes and impact analysis of Nuru’s Rural Livelihoods, Health, and Education programs in Ethiopia in 2018.Nuru InternationalRay Marshall Center for the Study of Human Resource
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2019 Nuru Kenya Impact Report
Since 2016, the Ray Marshall Center has been providing technical assistance to support Nuru International’s monitoring and evaluation (M&E) team. The Center’s experience and expertise supports Nuru’s work in Kenya, Ethiopia, and Nigeria by demonstrating the effectiveness and robustness of its integrated approach to addressing poverty.
In Kenya, the integrated Nuru model seeks to address three key areas of need: 1) food insecurity, 2) inability to cope with economic shocks and 3) unnecessary disease and death. To track program impact, the M&E team collects yearly evaluation data to support all data-driven decision making. This report reviews Nuru Kenya’s impact results from baseline collected in 2018 to the first follow-up in 2019 for Nuru Kenya’s Rural Livelihoods and Healthcare programs.Nuru InternationalRay Marshall Center for the Study of Human Resource
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Nuru Nigeria: 2020 Short Term Impacts
RMC researchers, Dr. Heath Prince and Ashweeta Patnaik, have completed an interim short term impact report for the four-year impact evaluation of Nuru International’s programming in Nigeria. Nuru Nigeria’s mission is to eradicate extreme poverty in fragile rural areas to build communities resilient to violent extremism. The goal of the multi-year impact evaluation is to study, through a development economics lens, how Nuru’s anti-poverty interventions in Nigeria impact resiliency to shocks. The results presented in this short term impact report reflect the initial limited set of intervention activities implemented from July 2019 to June 2020. The report sets out the follow-up status of various short-term impact indicators and makes comparisons with baseline values for the same indicators and among the same panel of respondents. The report supports continuous improvement by providing Nuru Nigeria with information regarding program progress within the implementation period.Nuru InternationalRay Marshall Center for the Study of Human Resource
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Nuru Kenya 2020 Impact Report
Since 2016, the Ray Marshall Center has been providing technical assistance to support Nuru International’s monitoring and evaluation (M&E) team. The Center’s experience and expertise supports Nuru’s work in Kenya, Ethiopia, and Nigeria by demonstrating the effectiveness and robustness of its integrated approach to addressing poverty. In Kenya, the integrated Nuru model seeks to address three key areas of need: 1) food insecurity, 2) inability to cope with economic shocks and 3) unnecessary disease and death. To track program impact, the M&E team collects yearly evaluation data to support all data-driven decision-making. This report reviews Nuru Kenya’s 2020 impact results for rural livelihoods, healthcare, and farmer organization performance.Nuru InternationalRay Marshall Center for the Study of Human Resource
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2017 Nuru Ethiopia Impact Report
Since 2016, the Ray Marshall Center has been providing technical assistance to support Nuru International’s monitoring and evaluation (M&E) team. The Center’s experience and expertise supports Nuru’s work in Kenya, Ethiopia, and Nigeria by demonstrating the effectiveness and robustness of its integrated approach to addressing poverty. The integrated Nuru model seeks to address four key areas of need: 1) food insecurity, 2) inability to cope with economic shocks, 3) unnecessary disease and death, and 4) lack of quality education for children.
In Ethiopia and Kenya, Nuru M&E utilizes a quasi-experimental design with the intent of measuring the effectiveness of the four impact programs as well as the overarching impact of these programs on multidimensional poverty. By following a panel of farmers from a non-intervention group as well as the same cohort of Nuru households over time, Nuru M&E evaluates whether or not any observed changes in well-being can be attributed to Nuru programming. Additionally, M&E analyzes key performance indicators to ensure programs track toward their goals.
Since 2017, RMC researchers have been responsible for carrying out data analyses for the Nuru M&E team and studying the outcomes and impacts of Nuru’s programming in Ethiopia. Findings from the analyses are used by the Nuru M&E team to inform program planning and decision making. In this report, RMC researchers present results from an outcomes and impact analysis of Nuru’s Rural Livelihoods, Health, and Education programs in Ethiopia in 2017.Nuru InternationalRay Marshall Center for the Study of Human Resource
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Monitoring and Evaluation Technical Assistance for A Glimmer of Hope Foundation: Guidance About Target Populations and Interventions
From March 2018 through May 2018, the Ray Marshall Center provided technical assistance to support A Glimmer of Hope Foundation’s monitoring and evaluation (M&E) efforts. The RMC’s experience and expertise supported Glimmer’s work by demonstrating the effectiveness and robustness of its integrated approach to addressing poverty. In the first phase of technical assistance, RMC conducted an in-depth review of Glimmer’s baseline assessment study design and baseline assessment tools, and provided recommendations based on best practices from the literature.
In the second phase of technical assistance, RMC conducted an in-depth review of literature to understand the primary factors driving poverty in Ethiopia; interventions currently being implemented to address these factors; specific interventions that have been shown to be most effective; and interventions, issues, and target populations that other actors (government/NGOs) are addressing in the area and their effectiveness. In this report, we provide strategic advice and recommendations on the selection of appropriate target populations and appropriate target interventions for Glimmer (specifically in the livelihoods and education sectors).The Glimmer of Hope FoundationRay Marshall Center for the Study of Human Resource
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Texas Early Childhood Care and Education Professional Preparation – Survey Data Report
This study was designed to broaden our understanding of the capacity of Texas Institutions of Higher Education (IHE) early childhood care and education (ECCE) programs to effectively prepare Texas early childhood professionals for the workforce.University of Texas Health Science Center and Texas Early Learning CouncilRay Marshall Center for the Study of Human Resource
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