TY - JOUR
T1 - Can information about jobs improve the effectiveness of vocational training?
T2 - Experimental evidence from India
AU - Chakravorty, Bhaskar
AU - Arulampalam, Wiji
AU - Bhatiya, Apurav
AU - Imbert, Clement
AU - Rathelot, Roland
PY - 2024/3/7
Y1 - 2024/3/7
N2 - We use a randomized experiment to evaluate the impact of providing richer information about prospective jobs to vocational trainees on their employment outcomes. The setting of the study is the vocational training program DDU-GKY in India. We find that including in the training two information sessions about placement opportunities make trainees 18% more likely to stay in the jobs in which they are placed. We provide suggestive evidence that the effect is driven by improved selection into training: as a result of the intervention, trainees that are over-optimistic about placement jobs are more likely to drop out before placement.
AB - We use a randomized experiment to evaluate the impact of providing richer information about prospective jobs to vocational trainees on their employment outcomes. The setting of the study is the vocational training program DDU-GKY in India. We find that including in the training two information sessions about placement opportunities make trainees 18% more likely to stay in the jobs in which they are placed. We provide suggestive evidence that the effect is driven by improved selection into training: as a result of the intervention, trainees that are over-optimistic about placement jobs are more likely to drop out before placement.
U2 - https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jdeveco.2024.103273
DO - https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jdeveco.2024.103273
M3 - Article
SN - 0304-3878
VL - 169
JO - Journal of Development Economics
JF - Journal of Development Economics
M1 - 103273
ER -