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Center for Employment Opportunities reentry evaluation

A random-assignment evaluation of a defined transitional-jobs model found a large but short-lived employment increase and selective recidivism reductions, with later replication work stressing model fidelity and subgroup variation.

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Bloom et al., Early Impacts from an Evaluation of the Center for Employment Opportunities, MDRC (2007), with replication findings (2016).

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A random-assignment evaluation of a defined transitional-jobs model found a large but short-lived employment increase and selective recidivism reductions, with later replication work stressing model fidelity and subgroup variation.

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