Bounds on Quantile Treatment Effects of Job Corps on Participants' Wages

German Blanco, Carlos A. Flores and Alfonso Flores-Lagunes ()

No 103761, 2011 Annual Meeting, July 24-26, 2011, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania from Agricultural and Applied Economics Association

Abstract: This paper assesses the effect of the U.S. Job Corps (JC), the nation's largest and most comprehensive job training program targeting disadvantaged youths, on wages. We employ partial identification techniques and construct informative nonparametric bounds for the causal effect of interest under weaker assumptions than those conventionally used for point identification of treatment effects in the presence of sample selection. In addition, we propose and estimate bounds on quantile treatment effects of the program on participants' wages. In general, we find convincing evidence of positive impacts of JC on participants' wages. Importantly, we find that estimated impacts on lower quantiles of the distribution are higher, with the highest impact being in the 5th percentile where a positive effect on wages is bounded between 8.4 and 16.1 percent. These bounds suggest that JC results in wage compression within eligible participants.

Keywords: Labor and Human Capital; Public Economics; Research Methods/Statistical Methods (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 48
Date: 2011
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DOI: 10.22004/ag.econ.103761

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