This reference paper describes the sampling and contents of the IZA Evaluation Dataset Survey and outlines its vast …

Theories of market failures and targeting motivate the promotion of entrepreneurship training programs and generate … testable predictions regarding heterogeneous treatment effects from such programs. Using a large randomized evaluation in the … labor market discrimination. We do find a short-run effect on business ownership for those unemployed at baseline, but this …

. We report results showing a positive impact of the extra resources on school attendance and performance in Mathematics … impact has been in more disadvantaged schools and on the performance of middle and high ability students within these schools …

to non-subsidised, "regular" employment. Using a sample of 8630 long-term unemployed young women, whose labour market …

report the workers’ performance to the experimenter. The report is non verifiable and determines the earnings of both the …

We econometrically evaluate the performance effects of a six month e-learning programme in a large retail chain with … monthly data on sales revenue, for four years using panel regressions. Participants in early cohorts show positive performance … performance effects already unfold during training, our findings put forward the importance of continuous training with close …

Turning unemployment into self-employment has become an increasingly important part of active labor market policies … find that over 80% of participants are integrated in the labor market and have relatively high labor income five years … for the unemployed tend to be most effective for disadvantaged groups in the labor market. …