In 2008, the U.S. Department of Labor’s Employment and Training Administration commissioned Mathematica to conduct a national random assignment evaluation of the Workforce Investment Act Adult and Dislocated Worker programs' effectiveness.
Kenneth Fortson
Associate Director
Areas of Expertise
- Design and implementation of both experimental and nonexperimental evaluations
- Labor and disability
Topics
- Employment
- Training and Reemployment
- International
- Infrastructure
- Disability
About Kenneth
Kenneth Fortson has expertise in the design and implementation of both experimental and nonexperimental evaluations. His work spans labor, disability, and econometric methods.
He presently leads the impact evaluations for the WIA Adult and Dislocated Worker Programs Gold Standard Evaluation (funded by the U.S. Department of Labor) and the Promoting Opportunity Demonstration (funded by the Social Security Administration). His previous research includes evaluations of individual training accounts and self-employment programs, as well as evaluations of training and infrastructure initiatives in post-Soviet republics.
Fortson’s work includes publications in peer-reviewed journals, such as the Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, the Economics of Education Review, the Journal of the European Economic Association, the Monthly Labor Review, and Computational Economics. He holds a Ph.D. in economics from Princeton University.
Key Publications
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Key Projects
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Workforce Investment Act Adult and Dislocated Worker Programs Gold Standard Evaluation
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