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Detailed Information

Country	Country: United States
GDP per capita	51.914
Context details	Most program participants were single mothers with barriers to employment including low education levels, limited employment history and responsibilities caring for young children
Age	mean: 29

2. Intervention

Implementation year	2004
Implementer	Private
Duration (months)	< 1 month
Cost	The average cost was about USD 3,500 per participant
Intervention details	Two-week orientation focusing on job-readiness skills, followed by a transitional job. Then, 10 hours of professional development activities (such as job search and job-readiness instruction, preparation for the General Educational Development (GED) exam, and other classes)

Evaluation design	Randomized evaluation
Cluster definition	N/A

Sample	Outcome	Test	Source Table	Observations	Statistics on Effects
Complete sample	Employment	N/A	4	1217	Coeff: 0.03; p-value: 0.16

Study	Butler, David, Julianna Alson, Dan Bloom, Victoria Deitch, Aaron Hill, JoAnn Hsueh, Erin Jacobs, Sue Kim, Reanin McRoberts, and Cindy Redcross. "What strategies work for the hard-to-employ? Final results of the hard-to-employ demonstration and evaluation project and selected sites from the employment retention and advancement project." (2012).