RT Journal Article
SR Electronic
T1 Long-Term Educational Consequences of Vocational Training in Colombia: Impacts on Young Trainees and their Relatives
JF Journal of Human Resources
JO J Hum Resour
FD University of Wisconsin Press
SP 0518-9528R2
DO 10.3368/jhr.57.1.0518-9528R2
A1 Adriana Kugler
A1 Maurice Kugler
A1 Juan E. Saavedra
A1 Luis Omar Herrera-Prada
YR 2020
UL http://jhr.uwpress.org/content/early/2020/02/03/jhr.57.1.0518-9528R2.abstract
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% to 24.1% for females and from 10.2% to 25.5% for males.