National Job Corps Study: 20-Year Follow-Up Study Using Tax Data - NF
About the Study
In 2017, the Chief Evaluation Office (CEO) partnered with the Employment and Training Administration (ETA) and funded contractor Mathematica Policy Research to conduct the National Job Corps Study: 20-Year Follow-Up Study Using Tax Data under the Administrative Data Research and Analysis portfolio of studies. This administrative data analysis aims to assess the long-term employment and earnings outcomes for Job Corps participants in the 1990s using tax data through 2015. The sample is from the original National Job Corps Study where random assignment intake was conducted between 1994 and early 1996 to a program and control group.
Administered by the ETA, Job Corps is the nation’s largest residential education and job training program for at-risk youth. The program reaches an estimated 60,000 participants each year at numerous locations across the country.
This Department of Labor-funded study was a result of the annual process to determine the Department’s research priorities for the upcoming year. It contributes to the labor evidence-base to inform employment and training programs and policies and addresses Departmental strategic goals and priorities.
- Twenty years after random assignment, what were the impacts of Job Corps on participants’ annual employment and earnings overall and by age group?
- What were impacts on types of employment (hourly wage and salaried employment, contractor employment, and self-employment); the receipt of Social Security Disability Insurance (SSDI) benefits; and spouse employment? Did the program have an effect on tax filings, liabilities, and balances due?
- National Job Corps Study: 20-Year Follow-Up Study Using Tax Data (Final Report, February 2019)
- Appendices A and B (Report Appendices, February 2019)
The Department of Labor’s (DOL) Chief Evaluation Office (CEO) sponsors independent evaluations and research, primarily conducted by external, third-party contractors in accordance with the Department of Labor Evaluation Policy and CEO’s research development process.