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This paper summarizes the findings from the first randomized evaluation of a job training program... more This paper summarizes the findings from the first randomized evaluation of a job training program in Latin America. Between 2001 and 2005 the government of the Dominican Republic operated a subsidized training program for low-income youth in urban areas. The program featured several weeks of classroom instruction followed by an internship at a private sector firm. A random sample of
SSRN Electronic Journal, 2000
Journal of Labor Economics, 2011
We report the impacts of a job training program operated in the Dominican Republic. A random samp... more 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.
OVE Working Papers, 2008
This paper assesses the welfare impacts of local investments projects in rural areas of Guatemala... more This paper assesses the welfare impacts of local investments projects in rural areas of Guatemala. Using census track data from two rounds of the Guatemalan population census, as well as administrative data on investment projects, we are able to estimate the impact of education, sanitation, productive, and total investment activities at the village level on measures of welfare. This is the first impact evaluation of social funds in Guatemala, and also the first paper that uses village level data, and both a multi-treatment effect approach and the generalized propensity score with continuous treatments to analyze this type of interventions. We find, as expected, that local investment in schools significantly boost enrollment, that investments in water and sewerage significantly improved measures of access to water. We also show that the amount of investment matters. We estimated dose-response functions based on the generalized propensity score and show that larger investments are associated with larger welfare improvements. Also, beyond the commonly used unsatisfied basic needs indicators we examined more meaningful welfare impacts in infant mortality and school progression. We found evidence of positive impacts of education on normal school progression, as measured by student overage. On the other hand, we found no impact of sanitation projects on measures of child mortality. In terms of productive projects, there was a significant and consistent impact on consumption. We did not find evidence to suggest complementarities of impacts: project impacts were in general independent of the presence of other types of projects.
This paper summarizes the findings from the first randomized evaluation of a job training program... more This paper summarizes the findings from the first randomized evaluation of a job training program in Latin America. Between 2001 and 2005 the government of the Dominican Republic operated a subsidized training program for low-income youth in urban areas. The program featured several weeks of classroom instruction followed by an internship at a private sector firm. A random sample of
SSRN Electronic Journal, 2000
Journal of Labor Economics, 2011
We report the impacts of a job training program operated in the Dominican Republic. A random samp... more 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.
OVE Working Papers, 2008
This paper assesses the welfare impacts of local investments projects in rural areas of Guatemala... more This paper assesses the welfare impacts of local investments projects in rural areas of Guatemala. Using census track data from two rounds of the Guatemalan population census, as well as administrative data on investment projects, we are able to estimate the impact of education, sanitation, productive, and total investment activities at the village level on measures of welfare. This is the first impact evaluation of social funds in Guatemala, and also the first paper that uses village level data, and both a multi-treatment effect approach and the generalized propensity score with continuous treatments to analyze this type of interventions. We find, as expected, that local investment in schools significantly boost enrollment, that investments in water and sewerage significantly improved measures of access to water. We also show that the amount of investment matters. We estimated dose-response functions based on the generalized propensity score and show that larger investments are associated with larger welfare improvements. Also, beyond the commonly used unsatisfied basic needs indicators we examined more meaningful welfare impacts in infant mortality and school progression. We found evidence of positive impacts of education on normal school progression, as measured by student overage. On the other hand, we found no impact of sanitation projects on measures of child mortality. In terms of productive projects, there was a significant and consistent impact on consumption. We did not find evidence to suggest complementarities of impacts: project impacts were in general independent of the presence of other types of projects.