
Study design
Design:
Study group formation:
Time period of study:
Primary outcome domains examined:
Increase short-term earnings, Increase long-term earnings, Increase short-term employment, Increase long-term employmentOther outcome domains examined:
NoneStudy funded by:
Results
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Outcome domain | Measure | Timing | Study quality by finding | Impact | Units | Findings | Sample size |
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Increase short-term earnings | Annual earnings | Year 1 |
High ![]() |
8.00 | 1995 dollars |
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5,611 |
Increase short-term earnings | Annual earnings | Year 1 |
High ![]() |
1,371.00 | 1995 dollars |
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553 |
Increase long-term earnings | Annual earnings | Year 2 |
High ![]() |
159.00 | 1996 dollars |
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5,020 |
Increase short-term employment | Ever employed, annual | Year 1 |
High ![]() |
0.00 | percentage points |
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553 |
Increase short-term employment | Ever employed, quarterly | Quarter 4 |
High ![]() |
0.00 | percentage points |
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5,611 |
Increase long-term employment | Ever employed, quarterly | Quarter 8 |
High ![]() |
0.10 | percentage points |
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5,020 |
High
Moderate
The findings quality describe our confidence that a given study’s finding is because of the intervention. We do not display findings that rate low.
A moderate-to-large favorable finding that is unlikely to be due to chance
A moderate-to-large favorable finding that might to be due to chance
A small favorable finding that is unlikely to be due to chance
A small favorable finding that might be due to chance
A favorable finding that is unlikely to be due to chance, but we cannot determine the standardized effect size
A favorable finding that might be due to chance, but we cannot determine the standardized effect size
A moderate-to-large unfavorable finding that is unlikely to be due to chance
A moderate-to-large unfavorable finding that might to be due to chance
A small unfavorable finding that is unlikely to be due to chance
A small unfavorable finding that might be due to chance
An unfavorable finding that is unlikely to be due to chance, but we cannot determine the standardized effect size
An unfavorable finding that might be due to chance, but we cannot determine the standardized effect size
A finding that is unlikely to be due to chance, but we cannot determine the standardized effect size or direction
A finding of no effect that might be due to chance
Sample characteristics
Characteristics are available for the early cohort of people only (randomly assigned from March 1994 to June 1995). The majority of the noncustodial parents referred to PFS were fathers (98 percent), of whom about 64 percent were African American, with most of the rest evenly divided between White (17 percent) and Hispanic (17 percent) men. The average age of the sample was 31 years, and nearly two-thirds were never formally married. The sample members generally had low levels of educational attainment; very few (about 2 percent) of the fathers had education beyond high school, and 48 percent did not have a high school diploma or general education diploma. In all, 17 percent of people in the sample were employed at the time of random assignment.
Age
Mean age | 30 years |
Sex
Female | 2% |
Male | 98% |
Participant race and ethnicity
Black or African American | 64% |
White | 17% |
Unknown, not reported, or other | 2% |
Hispanic or Latino of any race | 17% |
The race and ethnicity categories may sum to more than 100 percent if the authors reported race and ethnicity separately; in these cases, we report the category White, rather than White, not Hispanic.
Family status
Parents | 100% |
Noncustodial parents | 100% |
Participant education
Had some postsecondary education | 2% |
Had a high school diploma or GED | 52% |
Did not have a high school diploma or GED | 48% |
Intervention implementation
Implementing organization:
Program history:
Intervention services:
Mandatory services:
Comparison services:
Service receipt duration:
Intervention funding:
Study publications
Miller, Cynthia and Virginia Knox. (2001). The challenge of helping low-income fathers support their children: Final lessons from Parents’ Fair Share. New York: MDRC. Available at: https://www.mdrc.org/publication/challenge-helping-low-income-fathers-support-their-children.
Doolittle, Fred, Virginia Knox, Cynthia Miller, and Sharon Rowser (1998). Building opportunities, enforcing obligations: Implementation and interim impacts of Parents’ Fair Share, New York: MDRC. Available at https://www.mdrc.org/sites/default/files/full_38.pdf.
Martinez, John M., and Cynthia Miller (2000). Working and earning: The impact of Parents’ Fair Share on low-income fathers’ employment, New York: MDRC. Available at https://www.mdrc.org/sites/default/files/full_618.pdf.
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3346-Parents' Fair Share