This paper presents a cost-benefit analysis of Britain's Employment Retention and Advancement (ERA) demonstration, which was evaluated though the first large-scale randomized control trial in the United Kingdom (over 16,000 people were randomly assigned). Aimed at helping three separate target...

This report presents the final results on the implementation, impacts, costs, and economic benefits of the UK Employment Retention and Advancement (ERA) programme. ERA's distinctive combination of post-employment advisory support and financial incentives was designed to help low-income...

Both data obtained from surveys and data maintained by government units for administrating programs have been used to track the outcomes of social programs (e.g., earnings, educational achievement, and government benefit receipt) and, hence, to estimate their impacts. Sometimes both have been...