Personal Reemployment Accounts (PRAs) provide additional assistance and incentives to unemployed workers who are likely to exhaust their unemployment insurance by offering maximum flexibility in seeking the services that will best help them prepare for and find a new job. Drawing on a variety of...

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...

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,...

Uses experimental data from the Job Search Assistance (JSA) Demonstration to test the performance of the regression methods applied to nonexperimental data in the evaluation of Worker Profiling and Reemployment Services. Compares the performance of regression methods to the performance of...

Although research has clearly demonstrated that Unemployment Compensation introduces a reemployment disincentive, researchers disagree on the importance of this effect. The dispute arises partly because estimates of the effect of UC generosity on unemployment spells vary, and partly because...

A heated debate exists over the effectiveness of a teacher preparation approach called “alternative certification.†Alternative certification programs offer a means for bachelor’s degree holders to become a teacher of record, with far less training than required by traditional...

This two-page issue brief summarizes a concept originally proposed under the Back to Work Incentives Act (and subsequently included in the President's fiscal year 2005 budget) to give unemployed workers greater incentives and access to services to help them make a quick return to work. Targeted...

Uses experimental data from the Job Search Assistance (JSA) Demonstration to test the performance of the regression methods applied to nonexperimental data in the evaluation of Worker Profiling and Reemployment Services. Compares the performance of regression methods to the performance of...

Synthesizes what we know empirically about the WIA program and discusses lessons for WIA reauthorization.