Analysis and Dissemination Core

改善弱势青少年的教育和生活成果是美国的首要任务，但迄今为止， 干预措施已被证明可以改善这些青年，特别是男性的结果。的核心主题 我们更大的计划项目是评估提高长期寿命的最有效（和成本效益）的方法 为处境不利的青年取得的成果，重点是与学业成绩密切相关的成果， 危险和犯罪行为以及暴力参与。我们力求通过开展一项 在芝加哥进行的大规模随机对照试验（RCT）。2013年夏天，我们确定了一个研究样本， 在芝加哥南部和西部的12所公立高中，2,134名男性进入9年级和10年级， 与芝加哥公立学校（CPS）密切合作。这些年轻人被随机分配到 非常有前途的学术干预（由Match Education提供的高剂量数学辅导， 我们的合作者罗兰弗赖尔先前的非实验性研究发现， 0.5 6年级和9年级学生的标准差为0.7），或非常有前途的非学术干预（一种形式 一个名为“成为一个男人”的认知行为疗法，或BAM， 在芝加哥，青年指导），或接受两者，或都不。干预措施于2013年8月启动 2013- 2014学年与外界（非NICHD）的支持。NICHD的支持被要求延长 第二年（2014 - 2015学年），通过项目1和项目2进行两项干预措施，并进行面对面数据分析 在AY 2015 -16收集，以衡量结果和候选调解机制。的分析和 传播的核心活动将由核心领导乔纳森·古里安，一个领先的微型， 计量经济学家，以及两名研究人员，与项目1，2和 3、我们的研究团队。分析和传播核心将（1）帮助清洁，编码和 准备分析我们所有的数据;（2）分析我们项目和其他核心的数据，以估计主要的 学术和非学术干预的效果，其相对有效性，以及是否 同时实施这两种干预措施产生协同效应（大于累加效应）;（3）开展 （4）估计干预影响背后的关键中介和调节因素; (5)进行效益成本分析;（6）估计学校之间影响的差异，以了解更多关于 这些调查结果的普遍性;（7）创建这些调查数据的一个版本， 次级分析;（8）向科学和教育政策界广泛传播研究结果 通过在顶级同行评审期刊上发表文章，并在一系列学术会议上发表演讲， （9）除其他外，通过华盛顿的活动向决策者传播成果， 政策简报分析和传播核心的目标将得到另外两个核心的补充： 行政核心和执行与行政数据核心。

Improving schooling and life outcomes of disadvantaged youth is a top priority in the US, but to date not many interventions have been shown to improve the outcomes of these youth, especially males. The core theme of our larger program project is to assess the most effective (and cost-effective) ways to improve long-term life outcomes for disadvantaged youth, with an emphasis on the closely related outcomes of schooling attainment, risky and criminal behavior, and violence involvement. We seek to address this core theme by carrying out a large scale randomized controlled trial (RCT) in Chicago. In the summer of 2013 we identified a study sample of 2,134 males entering 9th and 10th grade in 12 public high schools on Chicago's south and west sides, working in close collaboration with Chicago Public Schools (CPS). These youth were randomized to receive a very promising academic intervention (high-dosage math tutoring delivered by Match Education, which in previous non-experimental studies by our collaborator Roland Fryer have been found to boost math scores by 0.5 to 0.7 standard deviations for 6th and 9th graders), or to a very promising non-academic intervention (a form of cognitive behavioral therapy called "Becoming a Man," or BAM, developed and implemented by a non-profit in Chicago, Youth Guidance), or to receive both, or neither. The interventions were launched in August 2013 for the 2013-14 academic year with outside (non-NICHD) support. NICHD support is being requested to extend both interventions for a second year (AY2014-15), through projects 1 and 2, and to carry out in-person data collection in AY2015-16 to measure outcomes and candidate mediating mechanisms. The analysis and dissemination core activities will be carried out by core lead Jonathan Guryan, a leading micro- econometrician, as well as two research staff members, in close collaboration with the PI's for projects 1, 2 and 3 and the rest of our research team. The analysis and dissemination core will (1) help clean, code and prepare for analysis all of our data; (2) analyze data from our projects and other cores to estimate the main effects of the academic and non-academic interventions, their relative effectiveness, and whether implementing both interventions simultaneously yield synergistic (more-than-additive) effects; (3) carry out a range of sensitivity analyses; (4) estimate the key mediators and moderators behind the intervention impacts; (5) carry out a benefit-cost analysis; (6) estimate variability in impacts across schools to learn more about the generalizability of these findings; (7) create a version of these survey data that would be archived for secondary analyses; (8) disseminate the findings broadly to the scientific and education policy community through publication in top peer-reviewed journals and presentations at academic conferences in a range of disciplines; (9) disseminate results to policymakers through, among other things, a Washington, DC event and policy brief. The objectives of the analysis and dissemination core will be complemented by two other cores: the administrative core and the implementation and administrative data core.