Programs work:
- In the last quarter of a 30-month follow-up of those ages 16-17 at assignment, program youth gained $21-26 (1998 dollars) in average weekly earnings
Programs work for subgroups:
- Young men with arrest records
- Young men who dropped out of school because of educational difficulties
- Female school dropouts who were not living with own children
- Those ages 16 through 19 at assignment had significantly higher earnings 4 years later than those ages 20 and 21 at assignment
Programs don't work:
- No significant impacts 30 months after assignment (sample of out-of-school youth aged 16-21)
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