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Can information about jobs improve the effectiveness of vocational training? Experimental evidence from India
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Chakravorty, Bhaskar , Arulampalam, Wiji, Bhatiya, Apurav Yash, Imbert, Clément and Rathelot, Roland (2024) Can information about jobs improve the effectiveness of vocational training? Experimental evidence from India. Journal of Development Economics, 169 . 103273. doi:10.1016/j.jdeveco.2024.103273 ISSN 0304-3878.
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Official URL: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jdeveco.2024.103273
Abstract
We use a randomized experiment to evaluate the impact of providing richer information about prospective jobs to vocational trainees on their employment outcomes. The setting of the study is the vocational training program DDU-GKY in India. We find that including in the training two information sessions about placement opportunities make trainees 18% more likely to stay in the jobs in which they are placed. We provide suggestive evidence that the effect is driven by improved selection into training: as a result of the intervention, trainees that are over-optimistic about placement jobs are more likely to drop out before placement.
Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||||||||
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Subjects: | H Social Sciences > HD Industries. Land use. Labor H Social Sciences > HF Commerce |
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Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences > Economics | ||||||||||||
SWORD Depositor: | Library Publications Router | ||||||||||||
Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Occupational training -- India, Job descriptions -- India | ||||||||||||
Journal or Publication Title: | Journal of Development Economics | ||||||||||||
Publisher: | Elsevier | ||||||||||||
ISSN: | 0304-3878 | ||||||||||||
Official Date: | June 2024 | ||||||||||||
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Volume: | 169 | ||||||||||||
Article Number: | 103273 | ||||||||||||
DOI: | 10.1016/j.jdeveco.2024.103273 | ||||||||||||
Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||||||||
Publication Status: | Published | ||||||||||||
Access rights to Published version: | Open Access (Creative Commons) | ||||||||||||
Date of first compliant deposit: | 21 March 2024 | ||||||||||||
Date of first compliant Open Access: | 22 March 2024 | ||||||||||||
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