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Detailed Information

Country	Country: United States
GDP per capita	43.264
Context details	Economically disadvantaged youth with need of additional education, training, or job skills
Age	16-24, mean: 18.37

2. Intervention

Implementation year	1996
Implementer	Government
Duration (months)	15
Cost	The average cost was USD 16,500 per participant
Intervention details	Participants received intensive vocational training, academic education, and a wide range of other services, including counseling, social skills training, and health education. Most centers were operated by private contractors and located in both rural and urban areas

Evaluation design	Randomized evaluation
Cluster definition	N/A

Sample	Outcome	Test	Source Table	Observations	Statistics on Effects
Complete sample	Health insurance	N/A	3	11313	Coeff: 0.03; SE:0.01; 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.