Interventions to improve the labour market outcomes of youth: A systematic review of training,
entrepreneurship promotion, employment services and subsidized employment …

Previous research found that less accommodating caseworkers are more successful in
placing unemployed workers into employment. This paper explores the causal mechanisms …

Job Corps is the nation's largest and most comprehensive career technical training and
education program for at‐risk youth ages 16 to 24. Using the sample from a large‐scale …

We derive bounds on the population average treatment effect (ATE) and the average
treatment effect on the treated (ATT) with an instrumental variable and employ them to …

We examine the effect of educational attainment on criminal behavior using random
assignment into Job Corps (JC)—the United States' largest education and vocational …

Employing nonparametric bounds, we examine the effect of military service on incarceration
outcomes using the Vietnam draft lotteries as a possibly invalid instrumental variable for …

Executive Summary The Job Corps program, established in 1964, helps young Americans
from low-income backgrounds, ages 16 to 24, complete their high school education and …

This paper examines the causal effect of earning a GED or vocational degree on future illicit
drug use, employing random assignment into the United States' most comprehensive …

We derive nonparametric sharp bounds on average treatment effects with an instrumental
variable (IV) and use them to evaluate the effectiveness of the Job Corps (JC) training …

Background Youth unemployment is a major challenge worldwide with an estimated 75.1
million young people unemployed in 2021 (International Labour Organization, 2022) and …