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

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 emplo...

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Published in:The Journal of human resources 2022, Vol.57 (1), p.178-216
Main Authors: Kugler, Adriana, Kugler, Maurice, Saavedra, Juan E, Herrera-Prada, Luis Omar
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Earnings
Educational attainment
Employment
Higher education
Rates of return
Secondary schools
Trainees
Training
Vocational education
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Summary: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.
ISSN:0022-166X
1548-8004
DOI:10.3368/jhr.57.1.0518-9528R2