Long-Term Educational Consequences of Vocational Training in Colombia: Impacts on Young Trainees and Their Relatives

Adriana Kugler, Maurice Kugler (), Juan E. Saavedra and Luis Omar Herrera-Prada

Journal of Human Resources, 2022, vol. 57, issue 1, 178-216

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-codes: C9 D6 I21 I25 I26 J24 J68 O2 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
Note: DOI: 10.3368/jhr.57.1.0518-9528R2
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Working Paper: Long-Term Educational Consequences of Vocational Training in Colombia: Impacts on Young Trainees and Their Relatives (2015)
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