Panel: Understanding “What Works” in Producing Program Impacts: Strategies for Unpacking the “Black Box”
(Methods and Empirical Data)

Saturday, November 9, 2013: 9:45 AM-11:15 AM
Mayfair Court (Westin Georgetown)

*Names in bold indicate Presenter

Panel Organizers:  Karen N Gardiner, Abt Associates, Inc.
Panel Chairs:  Brendan Kelly, Administration for Children and Families
Discussants:  Jeffrey Smith, University of Michigan and Demetra Smith Nightingale, US Department of Labor
Learning ‘What Works' From Multi-Site Experiments By Combining Natural Site-Level Variation With Randomized Individual-Level Variation in Program Features
Laura Peck, Stephen Bell and Alan Werner, Abt Associates, Inc.


Learning “What Works” in Career Pathways Programming: The ISIS Evaluation
David Fein, Howard Rolston, David Judkins and Karen N Gardiner, Abt Associates, Inc.


Understanding the “Human” in Human Services: Behavioral Interventions to Advance Self-Sufficiency (BIAS) Project Insights
Lashawn Richburg-Hayes, Nadine Dechausay and Peter Baird, MDRC


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