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David W. Stevens, Ph.D.
Executive Director
 David
Stevens is the Executive Director of The Jacob France Institute in the Merrick
School of Business.
Consultant roles include research conducted on behalf of
The Urban Institute, The Manpower Demonstration Research Corporation;
Mathematica Policy Research, Inc.; Abt Associates, Inc; the Bureau of Labor
Statistics in the U.S. Department of Labor; the National Occupational
Information Coordinating Committee; the Planning and Evaluation Service in the
U.S. Department of Education; the Administration for Children and Families in
the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services; the National Institute on the
Education Quality of the Workforce at the University of Pennsylvania; and the
National Institute for Research in Vocational Education at the University of
California, Berkeley.
Research sponsors include research and evaluation units in the U.S. Department
of Labor, the U.S. Department of Education, the U.S. Department of Commerce,
Maryland Department of Labor, Licensing and Regulation, Maryland Department of
Human Resources and the Governor’s Workforce Investment Board.
Conference Presentations
Data Confidentiality
Presentation
Association of Public Data Users
2007 Conference
October 25, 2007
David Stevens
University of Baltimore
“Accessing Confidential State Administrative Records”
 Powerpoint
Peter R. Mueser, David W. Stevens and Kenneth R.
Troske (October 2007). The Impact of Welfare Reform on Leaver
Characteristics, Employment and Recidivism: An Analysis of
Maryland and Missouri. IZA Discussion Paper No. 3131,
62 pages. Bonn, Germany: Institute for the Study of Labor.
Available at
http://www.iza.org.
David W. Stevens (November 10, 2007). The
Other Side of the Labor Market: The Importance of Access to
Business Data in Policy Making. Discussant at 29th
Annual Research Conference, Association for Public Policy
Analysis Management (APPAM), Washington, D.C.
Publications
21st
Century Accountability: Perkins III Columbus, OH: The
Ohio State University, National Dissemination Institute for Career and technical
Education, Institute on Education and Training for Employment, 79 pp.:
Getting a Job Is A First Step: What Should Follow?" (forthcoming),
Washington, D.C.: U.S. Department of Labor, Office of Workforce Security,
20pp.; "Changing Caseloads: Macro Influences and Micro Composition" (September
2001), Economic Policy Review, 7:2, New York, NY: Federal Reserve Bank of
New York, pp 37-51, (with Robert A. Moffitt); "Jobs, Workers and Changes in
Earnings Dispersion" (2001), Discussion Paper 491, London, UK:
London School of Economics and Political Science, Centre for Economic
Performance, 36pp. (with Simon Burgess and Julia Lane); "Churning Dynamics: an
analysis of hires and separations at the employer level," Labour Economics,
8:1 (January 2001): 1-14 (with Simon Burgess and Julia Lane); "The Reallocation
of Labour and the Lifecycle of Firms," Oxford Bulletin of Economic and
Statistics, 62 (December 2000): 885-907 (with Simon Burgess and Julia Lane;
"Welfare-to-Work Outcomes: The Role of the Employer," Southern Economic
Journal, 67:4 (October 2000): 1010-1021 (with Julia Lane); "Job Flows,
Worker Flows, and Churning," Journal of Labor Economics, 18:3 (July
2000): 473-502 (with Simon Burgess and Julia Lane).“Worker and Job Flows,”
Economic Letters, 51 (1996), pp. 109-113 (with Julia Lane and Simon Burgess);
“Vocational Education Accountability in a Block Grant World,” in Garth Mangum
and Stephen Mangum (eds.), Of Heart and Mind: Social Essays in Honor of Sar
Levitan, Kalamazoo, MI: Upjohn University Institute Press, 1996, pp. 131-153;
“Experiences of High School Graduates in finding Employment,” in Albert Pautler
(ed.), Contemporary Issues in School to Employment Transition, Ann Arbor MI:
Prakken Publications, 1993, pp. 73-83; “The Case for Revising U.S. Occupational
Classification Taxonomies,” in Report 833, Bureau of Labor Statistics,
Proceedings of the International Occupational Classification Conference,
Washington, D.C.: U.S. Department of Labor, 1993, pp. 212-234; and Occupation
Information: The Blue Highways of Labor Market Information, Washington, D.C.:
National Occupational Information Coordinating Committee, August 1993, 42pp.
Current Projects:
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Mapping investments in workforce development initiatives
by local philanthropic foundations, identification of
overlaps and gaps in current funding flows, and
development of a strategic plan for coordination of
future investments—JFI funding from the Abell
Foundation; in partnership with Jobs for the Future,
funded by the Annie E. Casey Foundation; and in
association with the Association of Baltimore Area
Grantgivers.
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Public
secondary and postsecondary education outcomes in
Maryland (co-investigator with Treva Stack)—JFI funding
from the Maryland Association of Community Colleges; the
Maryland Department of Labor, Licensing and Regulation;
the Maryland State Department of Education; and the
University System of Maryland.
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The
impact of local economic conditions on work and welfare
decisions in Maryland (co-investigator with Jane
Staveley and Chris Herbst)—JFI funding from the Maryland
Department of Human Resources
Recent Reports:
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The
Impact of Local Labor Market Conditions on Work and Welfare Decisions:
Revisiting an Old Question Using New Data by Chris Herbst and David Stevens,
November 2007
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Maryland Welfare Recipient Participation in Work is Limited by the
Number of Local Hires in Traditional Industries, by Chris Herbst and David Stevens, September 2007
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BEFORE
AND AFTER TANF TEMPORARY CASH ASSISTANCE CASELOAD DYNAMICS: PROFILES OF
WOMEN BORN IN 1967 OR 1977
(pdf) David Stevens, Chris Herbst, August 21, 2006
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Perkins
Career and Technical Education Act of 2006, Core Indicators of
Performance: Administrative Record Opportunities and Challenges (July
2006), 8 pp.
(pdf)
David Stevens,
July 2006
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New
Information to Promote Successful Job Search by Temporary Cash
Assistance Recipients
(pdf) David Stevens, Jane Staveley
July 18, 2006
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Raising the Bar:
Opportunities to Build on the EBMC Workforce Development Foundation
David Stevens,
March 1, 2005 (pdf)
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Meeting the Needs of Businesses and Workers in the 21st Century:
Proceedings of a Joint United States and European Union Seminar U.S.
Department of Labor Bureau of International Labor Affairs European
Commission Employment & Social Affairs,
February 2004: US Public
Workforce System David W. Stevens
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Responsible Use of Administrative Records for
Performance Accountability: Features of Successful Partnerships
Prepared for Division of
Research and Demonstration Office of Policy and Research Employment and
Training Administration U.S. Department of Labor (pdf) David Stevens, January 2003
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Occupational Skills Training in Maryland: A Study of Earnings Trends,
prepared for Governors Workforce Investment Board,
(pdf)
David Stevens, January 2003
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MARYLAND
APPLIED INFORMATION
TECHNOLOGY INITIATIVE (MAITI):
Employment and Earnings Profiles
of MAITI Program Graduates, (pdf)
David Stevens, January 2003
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Welfare to Work Policy: Getting a Job is a First Step - What Should Follow,
(pdf)
David Stevens, July
2001
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Changing Caseloads: Macro Influences and Micro Compositions (pdf), Robert Moffit and David Stevens November 2000.
Contact:
Dr. David Stevens, Executive Director
The Jacob France Institute
University of Baltimore
1420 N. Charles Street
Baltimore, Maryland 21201
dstevens@ubalt.edu
(410) 837-4729
Fax: (410) 837-5814
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