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Technical Education, Non-cognitive Skills and Labor Market Outcomes: Experimental Evidence from Brazil

Juliana Camargo et al.

IZA Journal of Labor Economics2021https://doi.org/10.2478/izajole-2021-0002preprint
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Abstract

This paper describes the results from an evaluation of a public policy that offers scholarships to current and former public high school students, so that they can attend technical and vocational education courses free of charge. We use a waiting list randomized controlled trial in four municipalities in a southern Brazilian State (Santa Catarina) to quantify the effects of the program on school progression, labor market outcomes and non-cognitive skills. Our intention-to-treat estimates reveal substantial gender heterogeneity two years after program completion. Women experienced large gains in labor market outcomes and non-cognitive skills. Employment rose by 21 percentage points (or approximately 33%) and the gains in earnings are of more than 50%. Also, women who received the offer scored 0.5 σ higher on the synthetic index of non-cognitive skills and 0.69 σ higher on an extraversion indicator. We find no effects on the male sub-sample. These findings corroborate the evidence on gender heterogeneity in the labor market effects of technical and vocational education programs. We also perform a series of exercises to explore potential channels through which these effects arise.

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@article{juliana2021,
  title        = {{Technical Education, Non-cognitive Skills and Labor Market Outcomes: Experimental Evidence from Brazil}},
  author       = {Juliana Camargo et al.},
  journal      = {IZA Journal of Labor Economics},
  year         = {2021},
  doi          = {https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.2478/izajole-2021-0002},
}

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F · citation impact0.71 × 0.4 = 0.28
M · momentum0.80 × 0.15 = 0.12
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