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Long-Term Educational Consequences of Vocational Training in Colombia

Impacts on Young Trainees and Their Relatives

View ORCID ProfileAdriana Kugler, View ORCID ProfileMaurice Kugler, View ORCID ProfileJuan E. Saavedra and View ORCID ProfileLuis Omar Herrera-Prada
Journal of Human Resources, January 2022, 57 (1) 178-216; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3368/jhr.57.1.0518-9528R2
Adriana Kugler
Adriana Kugler is a professor of public policy and economics at Georgetown University.
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Maurice Kugler
Maurice Kugler is a professor of public policy at George Mason University.
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Juan E. Saavedra
Juan E. Saavedra is a research scientist at the University of Southern California.
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Luis Omar Herrera-Prada
Luis Omar Herrera-Prada is a research analyst at the International Monetary Fund.
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Abstract

Vocational training evaluations focus on trainees’ earnings. This focus may understate these programs’ benefits if training improves participants’ and relatives’ educational attainment. We use Colombian administrative data and a randomization design to examine the long-term employment and education impacts on trainees and their relatives. Eleven years after randomization, trainees increased higher education enrollments, and their relatives increased secondary school attainment. Training helped relax credit constraints for women, while improving field-specific knowledge for men. Including improved education impacts from training increases the program’s estimated internal rate of return from 22.2 percent to 24.1 percent for females and from 10.2 percent to 25.5 percent for males.

JEL Classification:
  • I21
  • I25
  • I26
  • J24
  • J68
  • O2
  • C9
  • D6
  • Received May 2018.
  • Accepted October 2019.
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Adriana Kugler, Maurice Kugler, Juan E. Saavedra, Luis Omar Herrera-Prada
Journal of Human Resources Jan 2022, 57 (1) 178-216; DOI: 10.3368/jhr.57.1.0518-9528R2

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Long-Term Educational Consequences of Vocational Training in Colombia
Adriana Kugler, Maurice Kugler, Juan E. Saavedra, Luis Omar Herrera-Prada
Journal of Human Resources Jan 2022, 57 (1) 178-216; DOI: 10.3368/jhr.57.1.0518-9528R2
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