Using Administrative Data to Explore the Effect of Survey Nonresponse in the UK Employment Retention and Advancement Demonstration

Richard Dorsett, Richard Hendra, Philip K. RobinsAuthor Biographies Richard Dorsett is a Professor of economic evaluation at the University of Westminster in London, He specializes in program evaluation, Richard Hendra is a Senior Research Associate at MDRC. During his tenure at MDRC, he has played central roles in the quantitative analysis of a range of welfare, and workforce-development projects, He is an expert in evaluation methods and data collection, Philip K. Robins is a Professor of economics at the University of Miami in Coral Gables, He is a widely published labor economist with a specialization in the evaluation of public policies toward families, especially those that are disadvantaged, He is also a specialist in the design and evaluation of social experiments and the economics of the family

Evaluation Review: A Journal of Applied Social Research

Published online on November 23, 2019

Abstract

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Background:Even a well-designed randomized control trial (RCT) study can produce ambiguous results. This article highlights a case in which full sample results from a large-scale RCT in the United Kingdom differ from results for a subsample of survey ...