ArticleJournal of public economics2022
When Scale and Replication Work: Learning from Summer Youth Employment Experiments.
Article in Journal of public economics, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers.
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5 citing papers in PubMed.
- Summer Youth Employment Programs as a Structural Approach to Prevent Youth Violence: an Integrative Review.Prevention science : the official journal of the Society for Prevention Research · 2026Review
- Impact of summer programmes on the outcomes of disadvantaged or 'at risk' young people: A systematic review.Campbell systematic reviews · 2024Review
- Predicting and Preventing Gun Violence: An Experimental Evaluation of READI Chicago.The quarterly journal of economics · 2024Article
- PROTOCOL: Impact of summer programmes on the outcomes of disadvantaged or at risk young people: A systematic review.Campbell systematic reviews · 2023Article
- Does Administrative Burden Deter Young People? Evidence from Summer Jobs Programs.Journal of behavioral public administration · 2022Article
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Abstract
Two sources of treatment heterogeneity can undermine the scale-up and replication of successful human capital interventions: variation in the treatment itself and changes to the population served. 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. 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.
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