Table 6

Effect of JTPA on GED Receipt and Welfare Benefits

  Percent with GED or high school diploma
30 months after random assignment 		|
| 		Mean 30-month AFDC Benefits
  Impact in percentage
    points per     		|
| 		   
    Impact per    
  Treatment
group 		Control
group 		Assignee Enrollee |
| 		Treatment
group 		Control
group 		Assignee Enrollee
Adult women 32.0% 20.4% 11.6** 18.88** | $1,972 $2,049 $-77 $-130
Adult men  24.2 16.3  7.9 14.4 |    258    158  100*   164**
Female youths  39.4 31.7  7.7* 10.6* |  1,609  1,734 -125  -193
Male youth non-arrestees  36.8 36.3  0.5  0.7* |    158    150    8    12
Male youth arrestees  29.9 28.9  1.0  1.7* |    251     69  182   274
Statistical significance: ** = 5 percent, * = 10 percent.
Source: Bloom et al. (1994), Exhibits 8 and 9.