Given our results it seems difficult to reach a strong conclusion about the effectiveness of the training program.

In the preceding exercises we simply compared the employment outcomes of those that did and did not do the program. Which of the ideas below is likely to give us a better guide as to whether the training program worked than this approach? (Multiple answers allowed)

Question

Given our results it seems difficult to reach a strong conclusion about the effectiveness of the training program.

In the preceding exercises we simply compared the employment outcomes of those that did and did not do the program. Which of the ideas below is likely to give us a better guide as to whether the training program worked than this approach? (Multiple answers allowed)

Answer

Randomly allocate unemployed people to attend
the training program or not and compare the employment probability of these two
groups.

Answer

In State B compare the employment probability of
people who were unemployed for 11 months and did not have to go on the training
program with those who were unemployed for 12 months and did have to go on the
program. This creates two groups where the length of unemployment tenure was
quite close so the difference in employment outcomes should more closely
reflect the effect of the training program.

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