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Peter Z. Schochet
Senior Fellow
Peter Schochet is a senior fellow and senior economist at Mathematica in Princeton, NJ. He is a nationally known methodological expert in experimental and nonexperimental evaluations of interventions in education, employment, and welfare.
Schochet, who has been with Mathematica since 1991, has played a leading role in many large-scale studies of Job Corps, Early Reading First, Early Head Start, Trade Adjustment Assistance, the Workforce Investment Act, and other programs. He is currently serving as a principal investigator for a project funded by the U.S. Department of Education to provide methodological expertise on design issues for impact evaluations of educational interventions and programs, and several large-scale evaluations of major employment and training programs for the U.S. Department of Labor.
Schochet, who publishes frequently in peer-reviewed journals such as the American Economic Review, Evaluation Review, the Journal of Policy Analysis Management, the Journal of Educational and Behavioral Statistics, and the Journal of Human Resources, has presented at many professional conferences and briefings and lectured on evaluation design at Columbia University and other venues. He has a Ph.D. in economics from Yale University.
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- Methodological expert in experimental and nonexperimental evaluations of interventions in education, employment, and welfare
- Analytic and Technical Support Project
- Workforce Investment Act Gold Standard Evaluation
- Evaluation of the Trade Adjustment Assistance Program
- Chair of Methods Program Committee for Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management
- Reviewer for the Journal of Behavioral and Education Statistics
- Presented many seminars at major universities, such as Princeton, Columbia, University of Pennsylvania, University of Wisconsin, and conferences
- "Neither Easy Nor Cheap." In The Workforce Investment Act: Implementation Experiences and Evaluation Findings (2011)
- "Do Typical RCTs of Education Interventions Have Sufficient Statistical Power for Linking Impacts on Teacher Practice and Student Achievement Outcomes?" Journal of Educational and Behavioral Statistics (August 2011)
- "Estimation and Identification of the Complier Average Causal Effect Parameter in Education RCTs." Journal of Educational and Behavioral Statistics (June 2011)