The Labor Market Impacts of Youth Training in the Dominican Republic

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Card, David; Ibarraran, Pablo; Regalia, Ferdinando; Rosas-Shady, David; Soares, Yuri
• 署名单位: University of California System; University of California Berkeley; National Bureau of Economic Research
• 刊物名称: JOURNAL OF LABOR ECONOMICS
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0734-306X
• DOI: 10.1086/658090
• 发表日期: 2011
• 页码: 267-300
• 关键词: social experiments; PROGRAMS; selection; scheme; models; BIAS

摘要

We report the impacts of a job training program operated in the Dominican Republic. A random sample of applicants was selected to undergo training, and information was gathered 10-14 months after graduation. Unfortunately, people originally assigned to treatment who failed to show up were not included in the follow-up survey, potentially compromising the evaluation design. We present estimates of the program effect, including comparisons that ignore the potential nonrandomness of no-show behavior, and estimates that model selectivity parametrically. We find little indication of a positive effect on employment outcomes but some evidence of a modest effect on earnings, conditional on working.