Long-Term Eects of a Sectoral Advancement Strategy

The analysis of the long-term data was done separately for each site.6 The report also presents findings from a full benefit-cost analysis that examines whether the effects of WorkAdvance resulted in gains or losses from the perspectives of WorkAdvance participants, the government, and society. [...] It was hypothesized that because of this difference in the maturity of the programs and their services over time, the impacts for individuals who entered the study later would be larger than the impacts for individuals who entered the study earlier. [...] Because the effects of WorkAdvance were expected to strengthen as the programs gained more experience, the economic impacts at each site were also analyzed by cohort — one of the study’s two prespecified, confirmatory subgroups.1 Sample members who came into the study during the first half of the intake period — between June 2011 and September 2012 — are in the “early cohort,” while the “late coho. [...] For individuals who entered the study at the end of the enrollment period (in mid-2013), the NDNH data cover the first half of relative Year 4 to the first half of relative Year 6. [...] Bank of America staff members developed the curriculum, are actively involved in the training, and teach over half of the classes, and the bank has committed to hiring half of the training graduates.