| Principal Investigator: | Christopher T. King, PhD |
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| Sponsor: | The Aspen Institute’s Ascend Program Innovation Fund | |
| Project Duration: | December 2012 – April 2015 | |
| Description: | Two Generations. One Future: An Anthology from the Ascend Fellowship, featuring the 2012-2013 class of the Aspen Institute Ascend Fellows, is the culmination of more than two years of collaboration and bold idea development, aimed at building a cycle of intergenerational opportunity in America. The Anthology includes essays from leading practitioners, policymakers and experts, and researchers, capturing the momentum, challenges, and opportunities for two-generation approaches emerging at the local, state, and national levels.
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| Reports Available: | Two Generations. One Future: An Anthology from the Ascend Fellowship Editors: Dr. Christopher King; Dr. P. Lindsay Chase-Lansdale; and Dr. Mario Small Date: April 2015 Publication Type: Anthology, 172pp |
Behavioral Economics and Workforce Development
| Principal Investigator: | Heath J. Prince, PhD |
| Sponsor(s): | The Hitachi Foundation |
| Project Duration: | August 2014 – August 2016 |
| Description: | The Ray Marshall Center, with support and guidance from the Hitachi Foundation, will act on the following activities.
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| Reports Available: | Behavioral Economics and Workforce Development: A Review of the Literature from Labor Economics and the Broader Field Authors: Cynthia J. Juniper and Heath Prince Date: February 2016 Publication Type: Report, 16pp |
Linkage of Data at the National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS) with Texas Administrative Records
| Principal Investigator: | Greg Cumpton, MPA |
| Sponsor(s): | Centers for Disease Control |
| Project Duration: | August 2014 – August 2017 |
| Description: | The purpose of this work is to link food assistance and other related data from Texas with National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES) data to assist in policy planning in the United States. Data to be linked includes Texas Administrative Data Files (TADFs), Texas Food Stamp Program (FSP) records, Texas Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) files, and Unemployment Insurance (UI) files.
This work will be completed in two stages: the first stage of the work, which links data from 2005-2010, will be completed in 2015. The second stage of the work, which links data from 2011-2012, will be completed by August 31, 2016. |
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Evaluation of Current and Future Workforce Needs in Identity Management, Security, and Privacy
| Principal Investigator: | Kelly S. Mikelson, PhD |
| Sponsor(s): | Center for Identity, The University of Texas at Austin |
| Project Duration: | October 2014 – March 2015 |
| Description: | This 6-month project is funded by and conducted for the Center for Identity at the University of Texas at Austin. The Ray Marshall Center (RMC), which is part of the LBJ School of Public Affairs at the University of Texas at Austin, is conducting the evaluation led by Kelly Mikelson, Ph.D., Principal Investigator and Research Scientist, and Christopher T. King, Ph.D., Senior Research Scientist at RMC. Overall Objectives:
RMC researchers will be conducting in-depth in-person and telephone interviews with the Center for Identity’s key partners, employer representatives, and government agencies in Austin, Washington, DC, and four other cities nationwide. Researchers will be gathering information about education and training needs for identity management, security, and privacy. The information will be used to hone and further develop the Center’s MSIMS degree program and will culminate in a Final Report and recommendations in mid-April 2015. |
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Understanding SNAP-UI Interactions and Income After Job Loss
| Principal Investigator: | Daniel Schroeder, Ph.D. |
| Sponsor: | US Department of Agriculture |
| Project Duration: | July 2012 to September 2016 |
| Description: | The objective of this research is to gain a better understanding of the income trajectories of persons who have experienced job loss and the roles that Unemployment Insurance (UI) and the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) play in mediating income loss. The research will add to ERS’s understanding of the prevalence and severity of income volatility and how decreases in income associated with job loss may affect decisions regarding SNAP participation and duration of assistance, especially among the working poor. Research results can inform program and policy decisions regarding targeting of program outreach efforts, the interdependence of program budget needs between the nation’s two largest social safety-net programs during different portions of the business cycle, and how duration of available assistance is correlated with future earnings growth. |
Wage Insurance/Supplement Demonstration Project
| Principal Investigator: | Christopher T. King, PhD |
| Sponsor(s): | US Department of Labor |
| Project Duration: | June 2014 – December 2015 |
| Description: | The purpose of this project is to conduct background research and to design a demonstration and rigorous evaluation that tests the provision of wage supplements or wage insurance to unemployed individuals. As part of this project, researchers at The Ray Marshall Center will review existing data and research on the topic, identify different options for further research and/or demonstration(s) testing various strategies, and analyze the feasibility of these options. Many dislocated workers experience significant earnings losses when they become reemployed in a new occupation or industry. To mitigate these losses, economists have proposed wage supplements, also called “wage insurance.” As proposed, wage supplements “provide temporary, partial wage supplementation to dislocated workers who lose their jobs due to either a domestic or an international dislocation” (Wandner, 2010, p.448). Wage supplements are proposed to be a complement to unemployment insurance (UI). The UI program protects workers from wage loss while they are unemployed, while wage supplements are designed to protect workers from wage loss after they are reemployed. Wage supplements may encourage dislocated workers to more rapidly accept reemployment since “[u]nder most proposals, affected workers usually receive up to half of their lost wages based on their pre dislocation wage, usually for a period of up to two years” (Ibid.). |
| Reports Available: | Wage Insurance and Wage Supplements: Final Evaluation Design Report Authors: Christopher T. King and Kristie Tingle Date: January 2016 Publication Type: Report, 16pp. |
Measuring 2-Generation Effects of Capital IDEA Program Participation
| Principal Investigator: | Christopher T. King, PhD |
| Sponsor(s): | Capital IDEA |
| Project Duration: | June 2014 – May 2015 |
| Description: | The purpose of this research is to determine whether parental participation in Capital IDEA increased the share of participants’ children who completed high school and entered college upon graduation, and furthermore whether that participation increased the share of children who persist in and complete college. Additionally, this research examines whether participation in Capital IDEA enhances the parent/child relationship in ways that may increase the future likelihood of high school graduation and college enrollment among younger children. By matching student outcome data to parents participating in Capital IDEA programs, this project will contribute to the field of education by assessing whether or not particular program characteristics among Capital IDEA participants had a strong effect on the educational outcomes of their children, who were enrolled in greater Austin area high schools and graduated between 2006 and 2012. Little is known about the effects on older children of participation in education and training programs that lead to enhanced career advancement and improved earnings for parents. Findings that children of Capital IDEA participants had stronger educational attainment outcomes than their comparison group counterpart peers would indicate that two-generation strategies may be an effective strategy to close achievement gaps. |
| Reports Available: | Measuring Two-Generation Effects of Capital IDEA Program Participation Authors: Kristin Christensen and Tara Smith Date: May 2015 Publication Type: Report, 9pp |
Summer Melt-IES: Digital Messaging for Improving College Enrollment and Success
| Principal Investigator: | Heath J. Prince, PhD (RMC) and Christopher N. Avery (Harvard) |
| Sponsor(s): | Institute of Education Sciences (IES), Harvard University |
| Project Duration: | July 2014 – June 2017 |
| Description: | This project includes two parts: the first focuses on digital messaging to improve FAFSA completion and the second focuses on digital messaging on the entire college application process.
Successful completion of the Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA) is a key milestone on the pathway to college for many US students. Yet, the complexity of the FAFSA completion process creates barriers to college access and success particularly for students from low-income backgrounds and those who would be the first in their family to attend college. For example, college-intending students may fail to file their FAFSA at all, may delay filing and miss priority deadlines, or may fail to successfully complete steps in the income verification process, if required. In this project, we will marry data available through Apply TX on individual students’ FAFSA completion status, local FAFSA completion supports, and text messaging as a low-cost and effective means of communication to provide students and families with targeted information about the FAFSA and their status in the FAFSA completion process and to connect them with additional FAFSA support when needed. We will implement this project in selected high schools during the 2014-2015 academic year. Outreach will focus on Class of 2015 high school seniors. The second part of this project will follow a similar structure but will broaden the scope of the text-based outreach. In particular, we will send text messages to students beginning in their junior year of high school and continuing through the summer after their senior year in high school. The goal of the messages is threefold: (1) to provide college and financial aid information in a simplified, digestible manner; (2) to deliver timely reminders of important application and financial aid tasks; and (3) to provide students with guidance on how to successfully complete these tasks. By starting outreach early in the college admissions timeline, we will be able to message students about a broad range of college-related tasks, including college entrance exam registration and test taking, college applications, FAFSA completion, and pre-matriculation college transition tasks (e.g., signing master promissory notes). Note: Description of this project edited from that by Dr. Lindsay Page, University of Pittsburgh. Full description can be found here: Summer Melt IES Description |
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Evaluation of a DOL TAACCCT Grant Program: Austin Community College’s Health Professions Academy
| Principal Investigator: | Greg Cumpton, MPA |
| Sponsor(s): | Austin Community College, Northern Virginia Community College |
| Project Duration: | February 2014 – September 2017 |
| Description: | A Ray Marshall Center (RMC) research team, led by Dr. Christopher King and Dr. Kelly Mikelson, are conducting an evaluation of the TAACCCT (Trade Adjusmtent Assistance Community College and Career Training) grant to Austin Community College (ACC), a co-grantee with Northern Virginia Community College (NOVA), funded by the U.S. Department of Labor. ACC developed the Health Professions Academy to deliver individualized, computer-based education to improve the prerequisite completion rate for students pursuing a healthcare career. In addition, about 30% of the ACC students are supported by CapitalIDEA which provides high-touch case management for eligible learners. The RMC evaluation will track the ACC students throught the Health Professions Academy and examine labor market outcomes for students using Unemployment Insurance (UI) wage data. The evaluation will run through September 2015. |
| Reports Available: |
Texas Middle and High School Counselor Demand/Supply
| Principal Investigator: | Greg Cumpton, MPA |
| Sponsor: | Texas Education Grantmakers Advocacy Consortium, Austin Community Foundation |
| Project Duration: | March 2014 – September 2014 |
| Description: | High school counselors have the potential to play a critical role in promoting students’ high school completion and college readiness. The Texas Legislature has frequently recognized the importance of counselors in delegating important responsibilities to them, most recently in the case of House Bill 5 in regards to counselors’ assisting students in understanding and choosing curricular pathways, graduation plans, and endorsements. However, the legislative cuts to educational appropriations in 2011 appear to have reduced the supply of counselors in the state, possibly preventing the new curricular mandates in HB5 from being fully implemented. Despite the importance of counselors, limited research exists on factors that affect the supply of counselors and the effects of this supply on student outcomes. The purpose of this study is to analyze trends in the supply of counselors and the demand for their services, understood as trends in the student population, and to estimate the effects of counselors on students’ likelihood of finishing high school and enrolling in college. The study will specifically investigate whether students attending schools and districts that eliminated counseling staff as a result of the 2011 budget cuts fared worse than their peers in contexts where the student-to-counselor ratio was relatively maintained. |
| Reports Available: | Texas School Counselor Study: Exploring the Supply, Demand, and Evolving Roles of School Counselors Authors: Greg Cumpton, Matt Giani Date: December 2014 Publication Type: Report. 48pp.Texas School Counselor Study Executive Summary Authors: Greg Cumpton, Matt Giani Date: December 2014 Publication Type: Executive Summary. 4pp. |
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