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

A-Tier
Journal: Journal of Human Resources
Year: 2022
Volume: 57
Issue: 1

Authors (4)

Adriana Kugler (not in RePEc) Maurice Kugler (George Mason University) Juan E. Saavedra (not in RePEc) Luis Omar Herrera-Prada (not in RePEc)

Score contribution per author:

1.005 = (α=2.01 / 4 authors) × 2.0x A-tier

α: calibrated so average coauthorship-adjusted count equals average raw count

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.

Technical Details

RePEc Handle
repec:uwp:jhriss:v:57:y:2022:i:1:p:178-216
Journal Field
Labor
Author Count
4
Added to Database
2026-01-25