Does Job Corps Work? Impact Findings from the National Job Corps Study

By Peter Z. Schochet, J. Burghardt, S. McConnell. 2008

343 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Gender Studies, Safety Research, Statistics and Probability

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In Gender Studies

1. Christopher Blattman
2. Martin Huber
3. David J. McKenzie
4. Rita Almeida
5. Gerard J. van den Berg
6. Max Kapustin
7. Markus Frölich
8. Brian A. Jacob

In Safety Research

1. David J. McKenzie
2. Martin Huber
3. Markus Frölich
4. Gerard J. van den Berg
5. Max Kapustin
6. Christopher Blattman
7. Brian A. Jacob
8. Jens Ludwig

In Statistics and Probability

1. Martin Huber
2. Markus Frölich
3. Gerard J. van den Berg
4. David J. McKenzie
5. Rita Almeida
6. Sarojini Hirshleifer
7. Cristóbal Ridao-cano
8. Max Kapustin

Citations in the corpus

• Active Labor Market Policies (2016, methodology): “The program was evaluated through a large-scale experiment that included up to 15,000 young people (Schochet et al. 2008).”
• Generating Employment in Poor and Fragile States: Evidence from Labor Market and Entrepreneurship Programs (2015, background): “40Heller et al. (2015) 41See Schochet et al. (2008); Millenky et al. (2012) 12 constraints, sometimes in combination with business plan competitions, short business or skills training, supervision and mentoring, or other services.”
• Social Experiments in the Labor Market (2016, neutral): “At the same time, government transfers and crime rates fell (e.g., Schochet et al. 2008).”
• Youth Unemployment in Belgium: Diagnosis and Key Remedies (2013, positive): “Academic research has shown that only early, enduring and intensive remedial education and guided work experience helps for this target group (Schochet et al. 2008).”
• Direct and indirect treatment effects–causal chains and mediation analysis with instrumental variables (2014, methodology): “To illustrate estimation based on theorem 5, we consider a welfare policy experiment that was conducted in the 1990s to assess the US job corps programme; see Schochet et al. (2001, 2008).”
• A Unified Welfare Analysis of Government Policies* (2019, neutral): “Department of Labor and provides job training and other services to at-risk youth between the ages of 16 and 24 via a network of centers run by local public and private agencies (Schochet et al., 2008).”
• The Impact of Vocational Training for the Unemployed: Experimental Evidence from Turkey (2014, positive): “Somewhat more encouraging 1 More recently, Schochet et al. (2008) find improvements in earnings for disadvantaged youth taking part in the Jobs Corps program.”
• IDENTIFYING CAUSAL MECHANISMS (PRIMARILY) BASED ON INVERSE PROBABILITY WEIGHTING (2014, neutral): “16 Shaikh et al. (2009) show that f Pr D1⁄41jM;W;X ð ÞjD1⁄41 rjD 1⁄4 1 ð Þ 1⁄4 Pr D1⁄40 ð Þ Pr D1⁄41 ð Þ r 1 rf Pr D1⁄41jM;W;X ð ÞjD1⁄40 rjD 1⁄4 0 ð Þfor allr 2 0; 1 ð Þ, with fPr (D = 1|M,W,X)|D= d( |D= d) being the probability density function of Pr(D= 1|M,W,X) conditional on D= d, is a testable i”