The long-term impact of improving non-cognitive skills of adolescents: Evidence from an English remediation programme

Vahé Nafilyan, Stefan Speckesser and Augustin de Coulon

CVER Research Papers from Centre for Vocational Education Research

Abstract: In this paper, we estimate the long-term labour market effects of Entry to Employment (E2E), an intervention designed to improve the non-cognitive skills of low-achieving adolescents in England. Using an instrumental variable (IV) approach, we find that E2E courses substantially increased earnings of participants in the long-run. The increase is primarily driven by a large and significant effect on the probability to be in employment. Placebo tests and robustness checks provide further support that the link is unlikely to be affected by unobserved confounders.

Date: 2020-03-13
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