| Principal Investigator: | Heath J. Prince, PhD |
| Sponsor: | Nuru |
| Project Duration: | April 2021 – February 2025 |
| Description: | The Ray Marshall Center will assist Nuru International’s M&E team with analyzing and reporting Nuru Ethiopia, Nuru Kenya, and Nuru Nigeria’s impact. |
| Reports Available: | Nuru Nigeria 2023 Impact Report Authors: Heath Prince and Thomas Boswell (Ray Marshall Center); Bless Jima, Humshe Yakubu, Amos Emmanuel (Nuru Nigeria); and Casey Harrison, Matt Lineal, Ian Schwenke, and Bethany Ibrahim (Nuru) Date: December 2024 Publication Type: Report, 19pp. This report is commissioned by Nuru. Nuru Kenya 2024 Baringo County Baseline Nuru Ethiopia 2023 Impact Report Nuru Burkina Faso 2023 Impact Report 2023 Nuru Kenya 2023 Dairy Impact Brief Nuru Nigeria 2023 Endline Impact Report Nuru Ethiopia 2022 Impact Report Nuru Kenya 2022 Dairy Report Nuru Ethiopia 2021 Impact Report Nuru Nigeria 2022 Short-Term Impacts Nuru Nigeria: 2021 Midpoint Impact Report 2019 Nuru Nigeria Baseline Report |
Project Summary: Examining Reproductive Health Services of Women, Female Youth, and Female Refugees in Northern Jordan with a Behavioral Economics Lens
The Dutch Research Council has published a project summary for Examining Reproductive Health Services of Women, Female Youth, and Female Refugees in Northern Jordan with a Behavioral Economics Lens titled “Behavioural economics-inspired counselling helped to reduce pregnancies in Jordan” dated June 7, 2021. RMC’s Research Scientist Dr. Heath Prince led the project team in the United States which ran from 2017 to 2020. You can read more about the project here.
Introduction:
A behavioural economics experiment demonstrated that women in Jordan tended to make more use of modern family planning methods after the introduction of an innovative contraceptive counselling approach. Insights from behavioural economics were used to design text-based messaging reminders and to revise training and counselling guides used by midwives, resulting in women continuing to use modern family planning methods for longer.
Nuru Ethiopia 2020 Impact Report
Nuru Ethiopia 2020 Impact Report
Authors: Ashweeta Patnaik and Heath Prince (RMC), Tatek Amataw (Nuru Ethiopia), and Casey Harrison and Matt Lineal (Nuru International)
This report is commissioned by Nuru International.
Date: June 2021
Publication Type: Report, 19pp.
Since 2016, the Ray Marshall Center has provided technical assistance to Nuru International’s monitoring and evaluation (M&E) team. The Center’s experience and expertise support Nuru’s work in Kenya, Ethiopia, and Nigeria by demonstrating the effectiveness and robustness of its integrated approach to addressing poverty. This report presents Nuru Ethiopia’s 2020 impact results for farmer cooperatives, rural livelihoods, and healthcare programming. RMC researchers found that Nuru interventions led to higher agricultural incomes for Nuru farmer households and reductions in under‐five mortality while building a foundation of sustainable cooperative businesses.
In 2020, communities and farmers in southern Ethiopia experienced the onset of the COVID‐19 pandemic, a national state of emergency, continued desert locust swarms, and the outbreak of violent conflict in Ethiopia’s northern Tigray region. However, the firm foundation of livelihood diversification, healthy behaviors, and farmer organization impacts will ensure that meaningful choices are available to farmers in the future through their member‐owned businesses. Rigorous methods including comparison groups and benchmarking‐based analysis demonstrated that Nuru Ethiopia achieved attributable impact in 2020 despite the multiple challenges present in the year.
CareerAdvance® Implementation Study Findings through FY 2020: The impact of COVID-19 on service delivery
CareerAdvance® Implementation Study Findings through FY 2020: The impact of COVID-19 on service delivery
Authors: Cynthia Juniper and Christopher T. King
Date: February 2021
Publication Type: Report, 52pp.
Prepared for the Health Profession Opportunity Grant Program Administration for Children and Families U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
This report focuses specifically on and presents how CareerAdvance® partner organizations responded to the needs of participants and their families during the shifting impact of the COVID-19 pandemic upon service delivery; the efforts and issues salient to the sustainability of CareerAdvance®; and the impact participation in CareerAdvance® has had on the partner organizations’ overall philosophy, strategic planning, and service delivery.
Nuru Kenya 2020 Impact Report
Nuru Kenya 2020 Impact Report
Authors: Ashweeta Pantaik (RMC), Heath Prince (RMC), Hillary Ragen (Nuru Kenya), Casey Harrison (Nuru Kenya), and Matt Lineal (Nuru International)
Date: April 2021
Publication Type: Report, 24pp.
This report is commissioned by Nuru International.
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.
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*The Ray Marshall Center is proud to be one of the local partners, joining Austin Community College, the Office of the Mayor of the City of Austin, Travis County Judge’s Office, and Workforce Solutions Capital Area in the grant.
To read more about the initiative and see updates, please visit the dedicated website.
The Better Employment and Training Strategies (BETS) Task Force
The Better Employment and Training Strategies Task Force, or BETS, is a group of more than 40 workforce experts formed in November 2020 by Prof. Stephen Crawford of the George Washington Institute of Public Policy, Stuart Andreason of the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta, and Larry Good of Corporation for a Skilled Workforce to develop recommendations aimed at informing the incoming Biden-Harris administration and the 117th Congress on issues and policy options related to five central workgroups: unemployment insurance, workforce development, job quality, youth employment, and federal jobs initiatives. These five workgroups will provide critically needed input into workforce development policy and programmatic conversations around improving the country’s employment and training system.
Members include:
Steve Crawford (GW Institute of Public Policy, The George Washington University)
Stuart Andreason (Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta Center for Workforce and Economic Opportunity)
Larry Good (Corporation for a Skilled Workforce)
Burt Barnow (George Washington University)
Kisha Bird (CLASP)
Amanda Cage (National Fund for Workforce Solutions)
Mary Clagett (Jobs For the Future)
Maureen Conway (Aspen Institute Economic Opportunities Program)
Maria Flynn (Jobs For the Future)
Bob Jones (former Assistant Secretary, Employment and Training Administration/Department of Labor)
Clair Minson (Sandra Grace Consulting)
Todd Greene (WorkRise, Urban Institute)
Annelies Goger (Brookings Institution)
James Haynes (OIC of America)
Chris King (Ray Marshall Center, University of Texas at Austin)
Andy Van Kleunen (National Skills Coalition)
Jeanine LaPrad (Corporation for a Skilled Workforce)
Ann Lichter (New America)
Mary Alice McCarthy (New America)
Sarah Miller (Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta)
Jane Oates (former Assistant Secretary, Employment and Training Administration/Department of Labor)
Brent Parton (New America)
Heath Prince (Ray Marshall Center, University of Texas at Austin)
Martha Ross (Brookings Institution)
Bob Sheets (GW Institute of Public Policy, The George Washington University)
Thomas Showalter (National Youth Employment Coalition)
Martin Simon (formerly National Governors Association)
Katie Spiker (National Skills Coalition)
Carl Van Horn (Heldrich Center for Workforce Development, Rutgers University)
Publications
-Op-ed: ‘Building Back Better’ Means Focusing on the Labor Force & Systems That Support Recovery, The Better Employment and Training Strategies Taskforce, RealClear Policy, January 22, 2021.
-Policy Brief: Building Back Better: A National Jobs Strategy, Mary Alice McCarthy, Carl Van Horn, and Michael Prebil, February 18, 2021.
-Policy Brief: Building a National Unemployment Insurance System, Stephen A. Wandner and Christoper King, February 24, 2021 (revised March 16, 2021).
-Policy Brief: Build Back Better: Creating Infrastructure and Emergency Community Service Jobs Programs, Carl Van Horn and Mary Alice McCarthy, March 3, 2021.
-Policy Brief: Modernizing and Investing in Workforce Development, Larry Good and Earl Buford, March 22, 2021.
-Policy Brief: To Build Back Better, Job Quality Is the Key Maureen Conway, Jeannine LaPrad, Amanda Cage, and Sarah Miller, April 14, 2021.
Policy Brief: Building a National Unemployment Insurance System
Building a National Unemployment Insurance System
Authors: Stephen A. Wandner and Christopher King
Date: February 12, 2021 (revised March 16, 2021)
Publication Type: Policy Brief, 25 pp.
Dr. Chris King, Senior Research Scientist and former RMC Director, along with Stephen A. Wandner, a Senior Fellow with the National Academy of Social Insurance, has co-authored a timely and critically important policy brief on modernizing the U.S. Unemployment Insurance program. The pandemic has made stark the long-running weaknesses in the UI program, but King and Wandner present solutions that are both practical and imminently practicable. This brief is the product of the Better Employment and Training Strategies (BETS) task force, an ad-hoc group, including the RMC, of more than 40 workforce development experts created to provide critically needed input into policy and programmatic conversations around improving the country’s employment and training system. You can read more from the authors and BETS here.
Individual Endorsements
Steve Crawford (GW Institute of Public Policy, The George Washington University)
Stuart Andreason (Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta Center for Workforce and Economic Opportunity)
Larry Good (Corporation for a Skilled Workforce)
Earl Buford (Partner4Work)
Amanda Cage (National Fund for Workforce Solutions)
Maureen Conway (Aspen Institute Economic Opportunities Program)
Bob Jones (former Assistant Secretary, Employment and Training Administration/U.S. Department of Labor)
Clair Minson (Sandra Grace Consulting)
Todd Greene (WorkRise, Urban Institute)
Annelies Goger (Brookings Institution)
James Haynes (OIC of America)
Andy Van Kleunen (National Skills Coalition)
Jeanine LaPrad (Corporation for a Skilled Workforce)
Mary Alice McCarthy (New America)
Sarah Miller (Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta)
Jane Oates (former Assistant Secretary, Employment and Training Administration/U.S. Department of Labor)
Brent Parton (New America)
Heath Prince (Ray Marshall Center, University of Texas at Austin)
Martha Ross (Brookings Institution)
Thomas Showalter (National Youth Employment Coalition)
Martin Simon (formerly National Governors Association)
Katie Spiker (National Skills Coalition)
Carl Van Horn (Heldrich Center for Workforce Development, Rutgers University)
Organizational Endorsements
National Skills Coalition
Ray Marshall Center, University of Texas at Austin
Evaluation of the CCCCO Financial Literacy Pilot: Year One Annual Report
Evaluation of the CCCCO Financial Literacy Pilot: Year One Annual Report
Authors: Ashweeta Patnaik, Cynthia Juniper, and Greg Cumpton
Date: December 2020
Publication Type: Report, 60pp.
Financial wellness and financial literacy are important when it comes to the success of community college students. With this in mind, the California Community College Chancellor’s Office (CCCCO) brought together fifteen California community colleges to pilot a unique financial literacy messaging intervention (FL Pilot) in 2019. The goal of the pilot was to increase student retention and success by delivering useful financial literacy material, focusing on much-needed information about budgeting and credit, and specifically targeting first-year, first-time students, via a texting/email platform. The CCCCO partnered with the Ray Marshall Center (RMC) to conduct a comprehensive evaluation of the FL pilot. RMC’s evaluation included an outcome evaluation for each college and a rigorous impact evaluation for the pilot as a whole. RMC adopted a quasi-experimental evaluation approach and used propensity score matching (PSM) to study the impacts of the pilot on key academic and retention student outcomes.
This Year 1 report builds upon and extends the analyses presented in the interim report published in May 2020. RMC researchers found that the financial literacy messaging campaign overall had a small but positive impact on first-semester GPA for all students, as well as a fairly large positive impact on both fall-to-spring retention and fall-to-fall retention for first-time college students. RMC researchers also found evidence of program impacts on short-term outcomes (first-semester GPA and fall-to-spring retention) for students receiving financial aid, but no impacts on longer-term outcomes. These findings contribute to a growing body of research investigating the use of behaviorally-informed strategies incorporating low-cost technological solutions such as text-based outreach to help students navigate complex decisions and overcome barriers that hinder college enrollment, persistence, and completion.
Dr. King pens op-ed with BETS focusing on labor market challenges and recovery strategies
RMC Senior Research Scientist Dr. Chris King co-authored an op-ed ‘Building Back Better’ Means Focusing on the Labor Force & Systems That Support Recovery with The Better Employment and Training Strategies Task force (BETS) published on January 22, 2021 by RealClear Policy.
BETS, a group of more than 40 workforce experts including Dr. King and the Ray Marshall Center, was formed in November 2020 by Prof. Stephen Crawford of the George Washington Institute of Public Policy, Stuart Andreason of the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta, and Larry Good of Corporation for a Skilled Workforce to develop recommendations aimed at informing the incoming Biden-Harris administration and the 117th Congress on issues and policy options related to five central workgroups: unemployment insurance, workforce development, job quality, youth employment, and federal jobs initiatives. These five workgroups will provide critically needed input into workforce development policy and programmatic conversations around improving the country’s employment and training system.
A second report, Building Back Better: A National Jobs Strategy, Policy Proposals and a Framework for Action, was also recently published by members of BETS’s federal jobs strategy workgroup.
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