PT - JOURNAL ARTICLE AU - Adriana Kugler AU - Maurice Kugler AU - Juan E. Saavedra AU - Luis Omar Herrera-Prada TI - Long-Term Educational Consequences of Vocational Training in Colombia AID - 10.3368/jhr.57.1.0518-9528R2 DP - 2022 Jan 01 TA - Journal of Human Resources PG - 178--216 VI - 57 IP - 1 4099 - http://jhr.uwpress.org/content/57/1/178.short 4100 - http://jhr.uwpress.org/content/57/1/178.full SO - J Hum Resour2022 Jan 01; 57 AB - 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.