Estimating the Effects of Lenght of Exposure to Traning Program: The Case of Job Corps
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Keywords
Training Programs; Continuous Treatments; Generalized Propensity Score; Dose-Response Function;JEL classification:
- I38 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Welfare, Well-Being, and Poverty - - - Government Programs; Provision and Effects of Welfare Programs
- C21 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Single Equation Models; Single Variables - - - Cross-Sectional Models; Spatial Models; Treatment Effect Models
- 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-2009-11-27 (All new papers)
- NEP-HRM-2009-11-27 (Human Capital & Human Resource Management)
- NEP-LAB-2009-11-27 (Labour Economics)
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