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ERIC Number: EJ1387556
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2023
Pages: 25
Abstractor: As Provided
ISBN: N/A
ISSN: ISSN-1934-5747
EISSN: EISSN-1934-5739
How Do the Impacts of Healthcare Training Vary with Credential Length? Evidence from the Health Profession Opportunity Grants Program
Litwok, Daniel; Peck, Laura R.; Walton, Douglas
Journal of Research on Educational Effectiveness, v16 n2 p246-270 2023
This article estimates earnings impacts for those who completed long-term college credentials (degrees or college certificates requiring a year or more of study) and those who did not in an experimental evaluation of a federally-funded sectoral job training program. The experimental evaluation found no overall impact of the program on earnings, but we explore whether impacts vary by the long-term credential receipt. In theory, we expect that program impacts should be larger for those who earn long-term credentials. We test this theory using Analysis of Symmetrically-Predicted Endogenous Subgroups (ASPES)--an approach that leverages the experimental design to create experimentally valid treatment and control subgroups associated with some endogenous activity and estimates impacts for these subgroups (subject to assumptions required for identification). We find weak evidence that those who earned long-term credentials experienced meaningfully larger program impacts than those who did not. We posit that these differences are largely due to engagement with support services.
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
Education Level: Higher Education; Postsecondary Education
Audience: N/A
Language: English
Sponsor: Administration for Children and Families (DHHS), Office of Planning, Research and Evaluation (OPRE)
Authoring Institution: N/A
Identifiers - Laws, Policies, & Programs: Basic Educational Opportunity Grants
Grant or Contract Numbers: HHSP23320095624WC