Second Look at Reported Racial-Ethnic Employment Differences in the Supported Employment Demonstration

What is it about?

The Supported Employment Demonstration reported novel ethnoracial differences in the effect of individual placement and support on employment. Given equivalent ethnoracial employment rates in the control group, this effect relied on significantly lower self-reported employment rates among Whites in the treatment arms, but high attrition in the Supported Employment Demonstration reduces the validity of those results. Using an alternative measure of employment based on IPS team observation and subject to more complete reporting, we could not corroborate the presence of ethnoracial employment outcome differences in the treatment arms.

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