Social experiments conducted in Pennsylvania and Washington tested the effect of offering Unemployment Insurance (UI) claimants a cash bonus for rapid reemployment. This paper combines data from the two experiments and uses a consistent framework to evaluate the experiments and determine with...

Targeting reemployment bonus offers to unemployment insurance (UI) claimants identified as most likely to exhaust benefits is estimated to reduce benefit payments. While earlier research indicated that non-targeted reemployment bonus offers would not be good public policy, in this paper we show...

Social experiments conducted in Pennsylvania and Washington tested the effect of offering Unemployment Insurance (UI) claimants a cash bonus for rapid reemployment. This paper combines data from the two experiments and uses a consistent framework to evaluate the experiments and determine with...

Targeting reemployment bonus offers to unemployment insurance (UI) claimants identified as most likely to exhaust benefits is estimated to reduce benefit payments. While earlier research indicated that non-targeted reemployment bonus offers would not be good public policy, in this paper we show...

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.