Marilyn Rubin's Research Project Being Funded by the New Jersey State Policy Lab

Incorporating Equity into Agency Performance Assessment: Lessons for New Jersey

Marilyn Rubin – Distinguished Research Fellow

Dr. Marilyn Rubin's project will produce recommendations on how the State of New Jersey can advance equity for all its residents by incorporating equity considerations into the performance assessment of government agencies. Recommendations will provide agencies with information to use to develop equity measures that consider questions such as how can equity measures help to identify and remedy gaps in access and disparities in performance outcomes across demographic subgroups (e.g., racial groups); and what challenges exist when implementing equity performance measures in a state as diverse as New Jersey. Recommendations will suggest the types of data that agencies should collect as they move forward to include equity in their performance assessment. Because state government agencies follow instructions for funding issued by their central budget office, the project will also identify and synthesize equity-related language used by state government central budget offices in their budget instructions to agencies.

READ MORE ABOUT THE RESEARCH: 

• Incorporating Equity into Agency Performance Assessment: Lessons for New Jersey (March 14, 2023)
• How State Agencies are Advancing Equity Throughout the U.S. (May 30, 2024)