Bolhaar, Jonneke; Ketel, Nadine; Klaauw, Bas van der - 2018
In this paper we focus on the role of caseworkers in the assignment and take-up of welfare-to-work programs. We conduct … a field experiment that generates exogenous variation in the assignment to different policy regimes to caseworkers. The … experiment allows us to provide evidence on the effectiveness of welfare-to-work programs and to study how caseworkers exploit …