Money Matters: Evidence from a Large-Scale Randomized Field Experiment with Vouchers for Adult Training
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- Dolores Messer & Stefan C. Wolter, 2009. "Money Matters - Evidence from a Large-Scale Randomized Field Experiment with Vouchers for Adult Training," CESifo Working Paper Series 2548, CESifo Group Munich.
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field experiment; voucher; adult education; training; Switzerland;JEL classification:
- C93 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Design of Experiments - - - Field Experiments
- I22 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Education - - - Educational Finance; Financial Aid
- J24 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demand and Supply of Labor - - - Human Capital; Skills; Occupational Choice; Labor Productivity
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This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-ALL-2009-02-28 (All new papers)
- NEP-EXP-2009-02-28 (Experimental Economics)
- NEP-HRM-2009-02-28 (Human Capital & Human Resource Management)
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