TY - JOUR T1 - Long-Term Educational Consequences of Vocational Training in Colombia JF - Journal of Human Resources JO - J Hum Resour SP - 178 LP - 216 DO - 10.3368/jhr.57.1.0518-9528R2 VL - 57 IS - 1 AU - Adriana Kugler AU - Maurice Kugler AU - Juan E. Saavedra AU - Luis Omar Herrera-Prada Y1 - 2022/01/01 UR - http://jhr.uwpress.org/content/57/1/178.abstract N2 - 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. ER -