Estimating the Effects of Length of Exposure to Instruction in a Training Program: The Case of Job Corps

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

doi:10.1162/rest_a_00177

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Estimating the Effects of Length of Exposure to Instruction in a Training Program: The Case of Job Corps

Published in The Review of Economics and Statistics • Jan 13, 2011

Authors:

Carlos A. Flores

Alfonso Flores‐Lagunes

Arturo González

Abstract

We semiparametrically estimate average causal effects of different lengths of exposure to academic and vocational instruction in the Job Corps (JC) under the assumption that selection into different lengths is based on a rich set of observed covariates and time-invariant factors. We find that the es...

Subject

Training (meteorology)

On-the-job training

Job training

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