Generating Employment in Poor and Fragile States: Evidence from Labor Market and Entrepreneurship Programs

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Can Employment Reduce Lawlessness and Rebellion? A Field Experiment with High-Risk Men in a Fragile State (2016, background): “In developing countries, it comes mainly from country- and district-level analysis of income shocks.8 Similarly, in developed countries, studies also suggest that city-level crime rates fall as wages 5 See, for instance, Banerjee and Duflo (2011); Blattman and Ralston (2015).”
Tackling Youth Unemployment: Evidence From a Labor Market Experiment in Uganda (2020, background): “The staggered incentive contract solved drop out problems associated with training programs in low-income settings [Blattman and Ralston 2015].”
Women and Work in India: Descriptive Evidence and a Review of Potential Policies (2017, background): “Many skills and vocational programs have been shown to be relatively ineffective (McKenzie, 2017; Blattman and Ralston, 2015); in India, some of us found that only one-fifth of trainees are employed one year after training in a major skills scheme in India (Artiz Prillaman et al., 2017).”