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Detailed Information

Country	Country: United States
GDP per capita	41.409
Context details	N/A
Age	16-24 years old

2. Intervention

Implementation year	1994
Implementer	Government
Duration (months)	6
Cost	N/A
Intervention details	The Job Corps program provided participants with vocational training, academic education, counseling, social skills training, health education

Evaluation design	Randomized evaluation
Cluster definition	N/A

Sample	Outcome	Test	Source Table	Observations	Statistics on Effects
16-24 years old	Graduation	N/A	N/A	11313	Coeff: -2.20; SE: 0.50; SD: 100.00

Study	Schochet, Peter Z., John Burghardt, and Sheena McConnell. "Does job corps work? Impact findings from the National Job Corps Study." The American economic review 98, no. 5 (2008): 1864-1886.