Youth summer jobs have the potential to improve educational outcomes and disrupt cycles of economic inequality and crime.

Y.O.U. hired Case Western Reserve University to evaluate if youth participating in our summer jobs program from 2014-2017 were, in fact, positively impacted over time.

See the study in ScienceDirect, one of the largest bibliographic databases of scientific and medical publications. ScienceDirect is published by Elsevier.

The study matches SYEP participants and unselected applicants on various observed covariates using the Child Household Integrated Longitudinal Data (CHILD) System and relies upon propensity score matching techniques to estimate program completion impacts on educational and criminal justice system involvement outcomes.