Research & Evaluation
We conduct original program and policy research to understand problems, link policies to wellbeing, and describe the return on state leaders’ investments. Through mixed methods, we balance the use of qualitative and quantitative data to both maintain methodology rigor and highlight the nuance behind the data. This balance helps us describe why programs do or do not work. We perform benefit-cost analyses, data analyses, and impact studies. We help clients understand the implications of our findings, and we help clients translate our findings for a variety of audiences.
Highlighted Research and Evaluation
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- 09.18.23
- 2023
Throughout the nation, states are struggling to keep their child care industries afloat. Decades of underinvestment and a global pandemic threatened a near-total collapse of the system, held off only by temporary pandemic-era funding that
- TOPIC:
- Child care
- Research Brief
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- 12.15.21
- 2021
Tax filing behaviors and wellbeing of families in Austin, Texas.
- TOPIC:
- Economic supports
- Research Brief
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- 08.15.21
- 2021
Estimates the cost of raising children, including across a two households
- TOPIC:
- Economic supports
- Research Brief
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- 01.15.21
- 2021
Considerations for providing home visiting services to teen parents
- TOPIC:
- Child wellbeing
- Research Brief
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- 12.15.19
- 2019
This report presents findings on the effectiveness of the AVANCE Parent-Child Education Program (PCEP). Download (PDF)
- TOPIC:
- Child care
- Research Brief
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- 07.15.18
- 2018
Field-based training reduces caseworker turnover
- TOPIC:
- Child wellbeing
