Tag: Benefit Offset National Demonstration

Man with one leg working in a factory

Abstract This paper reexamines impacts from the Benefit Offset National Demonstration (BOND) to explore previously unexamined racial differences in participant outcomes.  It examines whether the impacts of BOND differed by participants’ race/ethnicity and the extent to which community-level racial inequities in economic conditions are correlated with participant outcomes that were central to BOND’s goals.  It…

Social Security sign in a garden

Abstract In this paper we use data from an evaluation of the Benefit Offset National Demonstration (BOND) to evaluate the efficacy of using comparative regression discontinuity (CRD) and regression discontinuity (RD) relative to a randomized controlled trial (RCT).  BOND is a large demonstration intended to promote return to work among people with disabilities who receiv…