@article{0b0d9aa0443444a797e0d280089be483,
title = "The Impact of Being Offered and Receiving Classroom Training on the Employment Histories of Disadvantaged Women: Evidence from Experimental Data",
abstract = "We address two questions using experimental data on disadvantaged women. First, what is the impact of being offered JTPA classroom training on the duration of unemployment and employment? Second, what is the effect of actually participating in this training on the length of such spells? Belonging to the treatment group shortens unemployment spells but has no effect on employment spells. Actually participating in training has a larger positive effect on the exit rate from unemployment than the effect of simply being a member of the treatment group. Ignoring the endogeneity of actual training in estimation substantially underestimates its effect.",
author = "Curtis Eberwein and Ham, {John C.} and Lalonde, {Robert J.}",
note = "Funding Information: We are grateful to Manuel Arellano, Gerard van den Berg, Michael Cragg, Donald Deere, Hidehiko Ichimura, Guido Imbens, James Heckman, Padma Rao Sahib, Geert Ridder, Jeffrey Smith, John Xu Zheng, and three anonymous referees for very helpful discussions and comments. Participants at the Econometrics of Training Conference (Austin), the RES/CEMFI Conference (Madrid) and the Canadian Labour Economics Conference (Montreal) made very helpful comments, as did seminar participants at the University of British Columbia, University of Chicago, UCLA/RAND, Harvard/MIT, Michigan State University, Rice University, Simon Fraser University, University of Southern California, Texas A&M University, and the University of Western Ontario. The Graduate School of Business at the University of Chicago and the NSF through grant SES-9213310 generously supported this work. Stepan Jurajda provided outstanding research assistance. We emphasize that we alone are responsible for any errors.",
year = "1997",
doi = "10.2307/2971734",
language = "English (US)",
volume = "64",
pages = "655--682",
journal = "Review of Economic Studies",
issn = "0034-6527",
publisher = "Oxford University Press",
number = "4",
}