Bounds on average and quantile treatment effects of job corps training on wages.

Autor/inn/en	Blanco, German; Flores, Carlos; Flores-Lagunes, Alfonso
Titel	Bounds on average and quantile treatment effects of job corps training on wages.
Quelle	Bonn: IZA (2011), 32, [5], 19 S., 1,40 MB PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Link als defekt meldenVerfügbarkeit
Reihe	Discussion paper series / Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit. 6065
Beigaben	grafische Darstellungen
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	online; Monographie; Graue Literatur
Schlagwörter	Schätzung; Lohn; Arbeitskraft; Arbeitsmarktpolitik; Weiterbildung; Arbeitspapier; Wirkungsanalyse; Junger Erwachsener; USA
Abstract	We assess the effectiveness of Job Corps (JC), the largest job training program targeting disadvantaged youth in the United States, by constructing nonparametric bounds for the average and quantile treatment effects of the program on wages. Our preferred estimates point toward convincing evidence of positive effects of JC on wages both at the mean and throughout the wage distribution. For the different demographic groups analyzed, the statistically significant estimated average effects are bounded between 4.6 and 12 percent, while the quantile treatment effects are bounded between 2.7 and 11.7 percent. Furthermore, we find that the program's effect on wages varies across quantiles and groups. Blacks likely experience larger impacts in the lower part of their wage distribution, while Whites likely experience larger impacts in the upper part of their distribution. Non-Hispanic Females show statistically significant impacts in the upper part of their distribution but not in the lower part.
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Update	2012/3