Evaluations of the impacts of government employment and training programs on workers have generally followed a strategy whereby the labor market outcomes of workers who receive program services are compared with the outcomes of workers who do not receive program services. Differences in outcomes...

Programs using means tests to identify low-income households face a trade-off between promoting access and ensuring program integrity. The authors use a comparison-district design to estimate the effects of a pilot program to improve the accuracy of the process of certifying students for free or...