Youth Employment Programs - Independent Evaluation Group

Note1. The Technical and Vocational Vouchers Program was launched in late 2008.Approximately 20 percent of participants chose courses that lasted a year or less,whereas close to 78 percent chose courses that were at least two years long. Thismeans that the majority of voucher winners were still in school until December2011 when the evaluations were done. Thus, the evaluated program impacts arenot for the full sample, but rather form suggestive evidence of the short-runimpacts of the program on the labor market outcomes, based on a representativesubset of program participants.ReferencesAlcazar, Lorena, Raul Andrade and Miguel Jaramillo. 2011. “Panel Tracer Study onthe Impact of Business Facilitation Processes on Enterprises and Identificationof Priorities for Future Business Enabling Environment Projects in Lima, Peru.”Report 6. Impact Evaluation After the Fourth Round. Prepared for IFC.Attanasio, Orazio, Adriana Kugler, and Costas Meghir. 2011. “Subsidizing VocationalTraining for Disadvantaged Youth in Colombia: Evidence from a RandomizedTrial.” American Economic Journal: Applied Economics 3(3): 188–220.Benus, Jacob, James Rude and Satyendra Patrabansh. 2001. “Impact of theEmergency Demobilization and Reintegration Project in Bosnia andHerzegovina.” Department of Labor Bureau of International Affairs. DevelopmentImpact Evaluation (DIME).Betcherman, Gordon, Martin Godfrey, Susana Puerto, Friederike Rother, andAntoneta Stavreska. 2007. “A Review of Interventions to Support Young Workers:Findings of the Youth Employment Inventory.” Social Protection DiscussionPaper No. 0715. Washington, DC: World Bank.Blattman, Christopher, Nathan Fiala, and Sebastian Martinez. 2011. “CanEmployment Programs Reduce Poverty and Social Instability ExperimentalEvidence from a Ugandan Aid Program.” World Bank Policy Research WorkingPaper series.Blundell, Richard, Monica Costa Dias, Costas Meghir, and John Van Reenen. 2004.“Evaluating the Employment Impact of a Mandatory Job Search AssistanceProgram.” Journal of the European Economic Association 2(4): 569–606.Bruhn, Miriam. 2008. “License to Sell: The Effect of Business Registration Reform onEntrepreneurial Activity in Mexico.” Policy Research Working Paper 4538. WorldBank, Washington, DC.Bruhn, Miriam and Bilal Zia. 2011. “Stimulating Managerial Capital in EmergingMarkets – The Impact of Business and Financial Literacy for YoungEntrepreneurs,” World Bank Policy Research Working Paper No. 5642.158 Youth Employment Programs