PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - German Blanco
AU  - Carlos A. Flores
AU  - Alfonso Flores-Lagunes
TI  - Bounds on Average and Quantile Treatment Effects of Job Corps Training on Wages
AID  - 10.3368/jhr.48.3.659
DP  - 2013 Jul 01
TA  - Journal of Human Resources
PG  - 659--701
VI  - 48
IP  - 3
4099  - http://jhr.uwpress.org/content/48/3/659.short
4100  - http://jhr.uwpress.org/content/48/3/659.full
SO  - J Hum Resour2013 Jul 01; 48
AB  - We review and extend nonparametric partial identification results for average and quantile treatment effects in the presence of sample selection. These methods are applied to assessing the wage effects of Job Corps, United States’ largest job-training program targeting disadvantaged youth. Excluding Hispanics, our estimates suggest positive program effects on wages both at the mean and throughout the wage distribution. Across the demographic groups analyzed, the statistically significant estimated average and quantile treatment effects are bounded between 4.6 and 12 percent, and 2.7 and 14 percent, respectively. We also document that the program’s wage effects vary across quantiles and demographic groups.