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Alison J. Wellington
Senior Researcher
Alison Wellington, a senior researcher, works primarily on large education projects.
Currently, she is the deputy project director for a national evaluation on the impact of the Teacher Incentive Fund. This evaluation will assess the impact of teacher and school incentives on student achievement.
She performs key roles for several areas of the What Works Clearinghouse, a large-scale project to promote informed education decision making. Wellington is also a key member on a national evaluation to evaluate the impact of teachers from highly selective routes to alternative certification on secondary student math achievement.
Prior to joining Mathematica in 2007, Wellington had a 17-year career as an economics professor focusing on labor and health economics. She has published in The Journal of Human Resources, The American Sociological Review, Contemporary Economic Policy, Labour Economics, and Research in Labor Economics. She holds a Ph.D. in economics from the University of Michigan.
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- Member of the American Economics Association, Midwest Economic Association, Society of Labor Economists, and the Western Economic Association
- "Analytic Support for Washington Citizens' Work Group on Health Care: Evaluation of Health Care Reform Proposals" (March 2009)
- "Baseline Statistics for Evaluation of the Effective Practice Incentive Community (EPIC)" (March 2009)
- "Design of the Evaluation of the Effective Practice Incentive Community (EPIC) Initiative" ( March 2009)