Living Up to Expectations: How Job Training Made Women Better Off and Men Worse Off
@article{Acevedo2017LivingUT, title={Living Up to Expectations: How Job Training Made Women Better Off and Men Worse Off}, author={Paloma Acevedo and Guillermo Cruces and Paul Gertler and Sebastian Martinez}, journal={Development Economics: Women}, year={2017} }
We study the interaction between job and soft skills training on expectations and labor market outcomes in the context of a youth training program in the Dominican Republic. Program applicants were randomly assigned to one of 3 modalities: a full treatment consisting of hard and soft skills training plus an internship, a partial treatment consisting of soft skills training plus an internship, or a control group. We find strong and lasting effects of the program on personal skills acquisition…
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