Bringing opportunity to the youth? Evidence from Northern Uganda
Since Northern Uganda is very much in the news this week, I thought I would discuss an interesting paper by Chris Blattman, Nathan Fiala, and Sebastian Martinez which looks at the impact of a youth...
View ArticleThe Impact of Vocational Training for Young Women in Delhi
One popular solution to unemployment is to provide the unemployed with more skills through training. However, the impacts of vocational training in developed countries have been at most modest.
View ArticleShould we believe the hype about adolescent girls?
There aren't that many development initiatives I know that have their own slickly produced video, sponsored by a major corporation, let alone a parody. But the "girl effect," which makes the argument...
View ArticleThe Impact of Vocational Training for the Unemployed in Turkey: an inside...
My latest working paper (joint with Sarojini Hirschleifer, Rita Almeida and Cristobal Ridao-Cano) presents results from an impact evaluation of a large-scale vocational training program for the...
View ArticleBiased women in the I(C)T crowd
This post is coauthored with Alaka Holla The rigorous evidence on vocational training programs is, at best, mixed. For example, Markus recently blogged about some work looking at long term impacts of...
View ArticleVocational training vs. apprenticeships: A Ugandan showdown
Youth employment is a significant and pressing development issue. But it’s not clear what governments can do. There have been several metareviews of active labor market policies, including a recent...
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