Learning but Not Earning? The Impact of Job Corps Training on Hispanic Youth

Flores‐Lagunes, Alfonso; González, Arturo; Neumann, Todd C.

doi:10.1111/j.1465-7295.2009.00211.x

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“…Moreover, they answer a policy-relevant question regarding the potential heterogeneity of the wage impacts of JC at different points of the wage distribution, and across different demographic groups. In this way, we complement the original work by Lee (2009) who analyzed the average effect of JC on wages, and contribute to a growing literature analyzing the effectiveness of active labor market programs across different demographic groups Abadie, Angrist, and Imbens, 2002;Flores-Lagunes, Gonzalez, and Neumann, 2009;Flores et al, forthcoming). Finally, we illustrate a way to analyze treatment effects on different quantiles of the distribution of an outcome in the presence of sample selection by employing the set of monotonicity assumptions described above.…”

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“…Therefore, in the presence of this non-compliance, the comparison of outcomes by random assignment to the treatment has the interpretation of the "intention-to-treat" (IT T ) effect, that is, the causal effect of being offered participation in JC. Focusing on this parameter in the presence of non-compliance is common practice in the literature (e.g., Lee, 2009;Flores-Lagunes et al, 2009;Zhang et al, 2009). Correspondingly, our empirical analysis focuses on estimating informative non-parametric bounds for IT T effects, although for simplicity we describe our methods and results in the context of treatment effects.…”

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Bounds on Average and Quantile Treatment Effects of Job Corps Training on Wages

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Flores‐Lagunes³

2013

J. Human Resources

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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.

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Bounds on Average and Quantile Treatment Effects of Job Corps Training on Wages

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2013

J. Human Resources

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“…For a detailed description of this dataset and previous research, refer to the literature that analysed the same dataset, such as Schochet, Burghardt, and Glazerman (2001), Schochet, Burghardt, and McConnell (2008), Flores-Lagunes, Gonzalez, and Neumann (2010), and most recently Flores, Flores-Lagunes, Gonzalez, and Neumann (2012).…”

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The identification power of smoothness assumptions in models with counterfactual outcomes

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Abstract. In this paper, we investigate what can be learned about average counterfactual outcomes when it is assumed that treatment response functions are smooth. The smoothness conditions in this paper amount to assuming that the differences in average counterfactual outcomes are bounded under different treatments. We obtain a set of new partial identification results for the average treatment response by imposing smoothness conditions alone, by combining them with monotonicity assumptions, and by adding instrumental variables assumptions to treatment responses. We give a numerical illustration of our findings by reanalyzing the return to schooling example of Manski and Pepper (2000) and demonstrate how one can conduct sensitivity analysis by varying the degrees of smoothness assumption. In addition, we discuss how to carry out inference based on the existing literature using our identification results and illustrate its usefulness by applying one of our identification results to the Job Corps Study dataset. Our empirical results show that there is strong evidence of the gender and race gaps among the less educated population.

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“…This subtle difference in the interpretation of our parameter of interest is the only consequence of the noncompliance issue in the NJCS. 13 It is important to note that for nt and at Y …”

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The effect of degree attainment on arrests: Evidence from a randomized social experiment

Amin

Flores

Flores‐Lagunes

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Economics of Education Review

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Learning but Not Earning? The Impact of Job Corps Training on Hispanic Youth

Cited by 35 publications

References 27 publications

Bounds on Average and Quantile Treatment Effects of Job Corps Training on Wages

Bounds on Average and Quantile Treatment Effects of Job Corps Training on Wages

The identification power of smoothness assumptions in models with counterfactual outcomes

The effect of degree attainment on arrests: Evidence from a randomized social experiment

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