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March 2010 (Department for Work and Pensions)
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Non-participation in the Employment Retention and Advancement study: implications for the experimental first-year impact estimates
Type: External publications
Authors: Barbara Sianesi
Published in: Technical working paper no. 77
ISBN: 978-1-84712-704 4

The Employment Retention and Advancement (ERA) programme has been evaluated by random assignment. Over one-quarter of the eligible New Deal population was, however, not represented in the experiment. The aim of this report is to explore how the findings from the experimental research relate to the impacts that would have been experienced, on average, by all the people who were eligible for the programme, had they participated in the study.

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Our ERA analysis contributed to the evaluation literature and informed the Government about the validity of the experimental findings.