Describes participants and rules of participation in the experiments and then estimates the extent to which UI claimants assigned to the experiments failed to collect bonuses for which they were eligible. The amount "left on the table" has significant policy implications for any program modeled...

Targeting reemployment bonus offers to unemployment insurance claimants who are most likely to exhaust benefits may help reduce benefit payments. Notes that targeting bonus offers using profiling models similar to those employed in state Worker Profiling and Reemployment Services systems can...

The authors discuss a group of supplementary results from the experiments, primarily the impact of the treatments on the earnings of claimants, the nature and quality of jobs, and employer attachment.

Presents the primary results of the experiments, namely the effects directly on the UI system. The impact on the dollar value of benefits paid to claimants and the duration of insured unemployment are also estimated.

This four-page issue brief summarizes findings from Mathematica's evaluation of Teach For America. The researchers found that TFA teachers outperformed non-TFA teachers in the same schools in math and achieved the same results in reading. However, TFA teachers also reported greater challenges in...

Students of Teach For America teachers outscored their schoolmates on math achievement tests, and matched their average performance in reading, according to the findings from the first national evaluation of the impact of TFA teachers on student learning. The large-scale random assignment study,...

This book chapter describes the existing research on the Workforce Investment Act and related programs, such as the Individual Training Account Experiment, and summarizes key findings.