论文标题
利用家庭赠款来基准基准USAID劳动力准备计划的成本效益
Using Household Grants to Benchmark the Cost Effectiveness of a USAID Workforce Readiness Program
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论文摘要
我们使用随机实验将劳动力培训计划与卢旺达的现金转移进行比较。本研究在贫困和就业青年的样本中进行，不仅相对于对照组，而且相对于简单地将计划的成本直接向受益人发放成本的反事实，衡量了培训计划的影响。尽管培训计划成功地改善了许多核心成果（生产时间，资产，储蓄和主观福祉），但成本等效的现金转移可以移动所有这些成果以及消费，收入和财富。在正面成本核算的比较中，现金在许多经济成果中都证明了优越，而培训仅在生产商业知识的生产方面优于现金。我们几乎没有证据表明人与物理资本干预措施之间的互补性，也没有异质性或溢出作用的迹象。
We use a randomized experiment to compare a workforce training program to cash transfers in Rwanda. Conducted in a sample of poor and underemployed youth, this study measures the impact of the training program not only relative to a control group but relative to the counterfactual of simply disbursing the cost of the program directly to beneficiaries. While the training program was successful in improving a number of core outcomes (productive hours, assets, savings, and subjective well-being), cost-equivalent cash transfers move all these outcomes as well as consumption, income, and wealth. In the head-to-head costing comparison cash proves superior across a number of economic outcomes, while training outperforms cash only in the production of business knowledge. We find little evidence of complementarity between human and physical capital interventions, and no signs of heterogeneity or spillover effects.
