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

German Blanco, Carlos A. Flores and Alfonso Flores-Lagunes
Journal of Human Resources, July 2013, 48 (3) 659-701; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3368/jhr.48.3.659
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    • Abstract
    • I. Introduction
    • II. Sample Selection and the Horowitz-Manski Bounds
    • III. Bounds on Average Treatment Effects
    • IV. Bounds on Quantile Treatment Effects
    • V. Job Corps and the National Job Corps Study
    • VI. Bounds on the Effect of Job Corps on Wages
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