The Labor Market Impacts of Youth Training in the Dominican Republic

By David Card, Pablo Ibarraran, Ferdinando Regalia, David Rosas-Shady, Yuri Soares. Journal of Labor Economics, 2011

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Entrepreneurship Education and Entry into Self-Employment Among University Graduates (2016, background): “Most of the existing evidence on training programs in developing countries comes from Latin American programs and tends to focus on the effect of providing technical and vocational training to low-skilled, at-risk youth on their probability to enter wage employment (e.g. Attanasio et al., 2011; Card”
Entrepreneurship Programs in Developing Countries: A Meta Regression Analysis (2013, background): “…et al. (2011) Female entrepre neurs Mexico Upper middle income LAC 2010 10 Basic business training Profits, revenues, number of clients served: + Card et al. (2011) Youth Dominican Republic Upper middle income LAC 2005 11 Vocational training+internship LM activities: 0 Earnings when working:…”
Active Labor Market Policies (2016, background): “A few studies exist on developing countries; Card et al. (2011) found no effect on employment one year after the end of the program in the Dominican Republic.”
The Impact of Vocational Training for the Unemployed: Experimental Evidence from Turkey (2014, unknown): “9 Three months is the same as the average length of the classroom components in both the Colombian and Dominican Republic training evaluations (Attanasio et al, 2011; Card et al, 2011), although those programs also supplemented this with two to three month internships to provide further on-the-job t”
Skills and Youth Entrepreneurship in Africa: Analysis with Evidence from Swaziland (2014, unknown): “11 Evaluations of Latin America’s programs targeted to vulnerable youth pointed out effectiveness of vocational and life skills training combined with internships in private firms (Attanasio et al., 2011; Card et al., 2011).”
Subsidizing Vocational Training for Disadvantaged Youth in Colombia: Evidence from a Randomized Trial (2011, methodology): “The only evaluation of a training program in a developing country based on a randomized trial that we know of is the work by Card et al. (2011) on a program in the Dominican Republic, which also finds positive, though insignificant, effects on earnings and on the probability of getting a job with he”
A Road Map to Vocational Education and Training in Industrialized Countries (2015, methodology): “Furthermore, an alternative way to address the endogeneity is to use propensity score matching that addresses the selection problem (lee and coelli 2010) or, even better, conduct randomized controlled experiments designed before the VET program implementation (Díaz and Jaramillo 2006; Attanasio, Kug”