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.
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How to improve the Texas child care sector
Impacts on workers, families, and the state budget
Significant returns to families and the state
Highlighted Research and Evaluation
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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
Tax filing behaviors and wellbeing of families in Austin, Texas.
- TOPIC:
- Economic supports
Estimates the cost of raising children, including across a two households
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- Economic supports
Considerations for providing home visiting services to teen parents
- TOPIC:
- Child wellbeing
This report presents findings on the effectiveness of the AVANCE Parent-Child Education Program (PCEP). Download (PDF)
- TOPIC:
- Child care
Field-based training reduces caseworker turnover
- TOPIC:
- Child wellbeing
