The Labor Market Impacts of Youth Training in the Dominican Republic
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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.
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Hard skills vocational training interventions often have limited impacts in developed and developing countries.
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- Authors
- Card, D., Ibarrarán, P., Regalia, F., Rosas-Shady, D., & Soares, Y.
- Affiliations
- University of California, Berkeley (US)
- Inter-American Development Bank (US)
- Venue
- Journal of Labor Economics
- Publisher
- University of Chicago Press
- Published
- 2011-04
- Volume
- 29
- Issue
- 2
- Pages
- 267-300
- ISSN
- 0734-306X (ISSN-L)
- 1537-5307
- OpenAlex
- W2108977677
- Cited by
- 225
- References
- 48
- Citations by year
- 2026: 4 · 2025: 10 · 2024: 13 · 2023: 12 · 2022: 4 · 2021: 21 · 2020: 21 · 2019: 13 · 2018: 10 · 2017: 21 · 2016: 20 · 2015: 19 · 2014: 23 · 2013: 16 · 2012: 16
- FWCI
- 128.03
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Journal of Labor Economics (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Political Science and International Relations › Education and Labor Relations
- Social Sciences › Economics, Econometrics and Finance › Economics and Econometrics › Labor market dynamics and wage inequality
- Physical Sciences › Mathematics › Statistics and Probability › Advanced Causal Inference Techniques
- Keywords
- labor market outcomes, employment effects, earnings effects, selection bias, program evaluation, Dominican Republic
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