@TechReport{iza:izadps:dp10107, author={Bendewald, Ellen and Maryns, Nicholas and Robertson, Raymond}, title={An Evaluation of the Workforce Investment Act Adult Program in Minnesota: Lessons from the Financial Crisis}, year={2016}, month={Jul}, institution={Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)}, address={Bonn}, type={IZA Discussion Paper}, number={10107}, url={https://www.iza.org/publications/dp10107}, abstract={Using matched administrative data, this paper estimates the program effects of Minnesota's WIA Title I-B Adult program to make two contributions to the literature. First, this paper applies a wide range of non-experimental approaches and generates similar estimates of program effects that are consistently larger than most other evaluations. Second, comparing workers job seeking in 2007-2008 with those job seeking in 2009-2010 suggests that the workers job seeking in a growing job market experience more persistent program effects.}, keywords={pseudo‐experimental;job training;WIA‐Adult}, }