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Sarah Dolfin
Senior Economist
Sarah Dolfin is a senior economist with expertise in experimental and nonexperimental program evaluations, particularly in the areas of education and training.
Dolfin was deputy project director for Mathematica’s evaluation of comprehensive teacher induction programs, and provided analytic and technical support on education research conducted by Regional Educational Laboratories. She plays a lead role in the evaluation of the Trade Adjustment Assistance program, which provides training and financial support to workers displaced by trade. In past work, she directed studies of minimum wage and overtime violations.
Dolfin was previously an assistant professor of economics at the University of California, Irvine. She has published in the American Economic Review, Labour Economics, Journal of Development Economics, and Applied Economics. She holds a Ph.D. in economics from Yale University.
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- Areas of Expertise
- Key Projects
- Professional Activities
- Publications
- Experimental and nonexperimental program evaluations
- Education and training
- Analytical and Technical Support for Advancing Education Evaluations
- Evaluation of the Impact of Teacher Induction Programs
- Impact Evaluation of the Trade Adjustment Assistance (TAA) Program
- Member, Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management
- "Impacts of Comprehensive Teacher Induction: Final Results from a Randomized Controlled Study" (June 2010)
- "National Evaluation of the Trade Adjustment Assistance Program: Characteristics of Workers Eligible Under the 2002 TAA Program and Their Early Program Experiences" (April 2010)
- "Impacts of Comprehensive Teacher Induction: Results from the Second Year of a Randomized Controlled Study" (August 2009)