Subsidizing Vocational Training for Disadvantaged Youth in Colombia: Evidence from a Randomized Trial

By O. Attanasio, Adriana D. Kugler, C. Meghir. 2011

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Generating Skilled Self-Employment in Developing Countries: Experimental Evidence from Uganda* (2014, background): “These programs have successfully reduced risk and poverty, but so far show little impact on employment or earning capacities.4 3 In Colombia there was no effect on men but women’s work and wages rose (Attanasio, Kugler, and Meghir 2011).”
Active Labor Market Policies (2016, background): “Attanasio et al. (2011) is a notable exception : they found positive but limited impacts of professional training on young people in Colombia in the short run.”
Promoting Women's Economic Empowerment: What Works? (2014, background): “…cash grants were given (de Mel, McKenzie, and Woodruff 2008, 2009, 2012), and in India, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Mongolia, the Philippines, and Thailand, where the intervention was microloans (Duflo et al. 2013; Augsburg et al. 2012; Attanasio et al. 2011; Karlan and Zinman 2010; Coleman 2006).”
The Impact of Vocational Training for the Unemployed: Experimental Evidence from Turkey (2014, positive): “5.2 Heterogeneity of Employment Impacts by Age and Gender Existing experimental evaluations of vocational training programs in developing countries have focused just on youth, and Attanasio et al. (2011) find different impacts by gender, with young women benefiting more from their training in Colomb”
Can Employment Reduce Lawlessness and Rebellion? A Field Experiment with High-Risk Men in a Fragile State (2016, background): “…effect, in the same sense that schooling and training programs are thought to affect crime in large part because they keep high-risk men off the streets (Freeman 1999). and seldom pass a cost-benefit test (e.g., Attanasio, Kugler, and Meghir 2011; Cho et al. 2013; McKenzie and Woodruff 2014).”
Entrepreneurship Programs in Developing Countries: A Meta Regression Analysis (2013, background): “3 internship in private firms could be potentially useful for self employment promotion as well (Attanasio et al., 2011; Card et al., 2011).”
Learning and Earning: Evidence from a Randomized Evaluation in India (2017, background): “On the other hand, Attanasio, Kugler, and Meghir (2011) are more positive – using data from a randomized vocational training program aimed at disadvantaged youth in Colombia in 2005, they find that the program raised earnings and employment for women.2 2Hicks, Kremer, Mbiti, and Miguel (2012) and Fi”
A Roadmap to Vocational Education and Training Systems Around the World (2013, background): “…of those enrolled in secondary education was below 10 percent in most countries in the early 2000s, apart from very few cases such as Liberia, Mali (with both reaching more than 30 percent), Angola, Rwanda and Sierra Leone (with more than 10 percent)--DFID (2007) and Atchoarena and Delluc (2001).”
How Effective are Active Labor Market Policies in Developing Countries? A Critical Review of Recent Evidence (2017, background): “(2016) and Attanasio et al. (2015) discuss it, and examine whether impacts differ by the tightness of the labor market,”