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| Field Trial Status | Before on_going | After completed |
| Field Last Published | Before November 06, 2019 03:59 PM | After October 03, 2022 12:21 PM |
| Field Is there a restricted access data set available on request? | Before | After No |
| Field Program Files | Before | After Yes |
| Field Program Files URL | Before | After https://drive.google.com/file/d/1X1MlecmUs_zQrd6v_CjpkHib64tpLsYK/view |
| Field Is data available for public use? | Before | After No |
| Field Keyword(s) | Before Education, Labor | After Education, Labor |
| Field Building on Existing Work | Before | After No |
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| Field Paper Abstract | Before | After This paper combines two new summer youth employment experiments in Chicago and Philadelphia with previously published evidence to show how repeated study of an intervention as it scales and changes contexts can guide decisions about public investment. Two sources of treatment heterogeneity can undermine the scale-up and replication of successful human capital interventions: variation in the treatment itself and in individual responsiveness. Results show that these programs generate consistently large proportional decreases in criminal justice involvement, even as administrators recruit additional youth, hire new local providers, find more job placements, and vary the content of their programs. Using both endogeneous stratification within cities and variation in 62 new and existing point estimates across cities uncovers a key pattern of individual responsiveness: impacts grow linearly with the risk of socially costly behavior each person faces. Identifying more interventions that combine this pattern of robustness to treatment variation with bigger effects for the most disconnected could aid efforts to reduce social inequality efficiently. |
| Field Paper Citation | Before | After Heller, Sara B. “When Scale and Replication Work: Learning from Summer Youth Employment Experiments” (2022), Journal of Public Economics, 209(104617) |
| Field Paper URL | Before | After https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jpubeco.2022.104617 |
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| Field Paper Abstract | Before | After Administrative burden reduces the effectiveness of public social programs by deterring take up among adults, but we know little about the role these burdens play in public programs for young people. This paper uses empirical evidence to assess how different barriers shape adolescents’ take-up of summer jobs programs. In a Philadelphia experiment, we find that reminder emails increased application completion by 1.8 percentage points (12.3 percent), with bigger effects from emphasizing short-term monetary gains. In a non-experimental analysis of Philadelphia and Chicago programs, we show that without individualized support during enrollment, disconnected youth are less likely to participate when offered a slot than their more advantaged peers. However, offering universal personalized support during enrollment makes them as or more likely to participate. These findings suggest administrative burden does constrain the benefits of public spending on youth programs and that reducing burden can increase gains from social programs for young people. |
| Field Paper Citation | Before | After Bhanot, Syon & Sara B. Heller. “Does Administrative Burden Deter Young People? Evidence from Summer Jobs Programs” (2022), Journal of Behavioral Public Administration, 5(1) |
| Field Paper URL | Before | After https://doi.org/10.30636/jbpa.51.300 |