An Federally funded evaluation of the Job Corps program found that Hispanic youths failed to benefit economically from Job Corps training. In this paper, we explore whether this is the result of non-comparable Hispanic control and treatment groups created during randomization. We employ...

The National Job Corps Study (NJCS) was a four-year longitudinal social experiment in which over 15,000 Job Corps eligible applicants were randomized into treatment and control groups. Using experimental estimators, Job Corps was found to have positive impacts in the weekly earnings of white and...

The National Job Corps Study (NJCS) was a four-year longitudinal social experiment that randomized over 15,000 Job Corps eligible applicants into treatment and control groups. Experimental estimators revealed a positive impact of Job Corps training in the weekly earnings of white and black...

Most of the literature on the evaluation of training programs focuses on the effect of participation on a particular outcome (e.g. earnings). The "treatment" is generally represented by a binary variable equal to one if participation in the program occurs, and equal to zero if no participation...

Most of the literature on the evaluation of training programs focuses on the effect of participation on a particular outcome (e.g. earnings). The "treatment" is generally represented by a binary variable equal to one if participation in the program occurs, and equal to zero if no participation...

The majority of the literature dealing with Hispanic and immigrant education focuses primarily on large states to the detriment of other states, such as Arizona. Using the 1990 5% Census Public Use Microdata Sample file for Arizona, this study estimates the role of ethnicity and immigration at...

Recent research indicates that college students who transfer from community colleges are significantly less likely to complete a four-year college degree than students who begin at four-year institutions. This paper estimates models of college completion for both types of students. Based on...