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Study of Chicago Employment Retention and Advancement (ERA)
Study quality: High
Study publications:
Redcross, Cindy, Victoria Deitch, and Mary Farrell. (2010). Benefit-Cost Findings for Three Programs in the Employment Retention and Advancement (ERA) Project. MDRC. Available at: https://www.mdrc.org/publication/benefit-cost-findings-three-programs-employment-retention-and-advancement-era-project.
Bloom, Dan, Richard Hendra, and Jocelyn Page (2006). The Employment Retention and Advancement project: Results from the Chicago ERA site, Washington, DC: Office of Planning, Research, and Evaluation, Administration for Children and Families, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. Available at https://www.mdrc.org/sites/default/files/full_544.pdf.
Bloom, Dan, Richard Hendra, Karin Martinson, and Susan Scrivener (2005). The Employment Retention and Advancement project: Early results from four sites, Washington, DC: Office of Planning, Research, and Evaluation, Administration for Children and Families, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. Available at https://www.acf.hhs.gov/sites/default/files/opre/early_results.pdf.
Hendra, Richard, Keri-Nicole Dillman, Gayle Hamilton, Erika Lundquist, Karin Martinson, Melissa Wavelet, Aaron Hill, and Sonya Williams (2010). The Employment Retention and Advancement project: How effective are different approaches aiming to increase employment retention and advancement? Final impacts for twelve models, New York: MDRC. Available at https://www.acf.hhs.gov/opre/resource/the-employment-retention-and-advancement-project-how-effective-are.