使用家庭补助金对USAID劳动力准备计划的成本效益进行基准评估
Using Household Grants to Benchmark the Cost Effectiveness of a USAID Workforce Readiness Program
摘要：
我们使用随机实验来比较卢旺达的劳动力培训计划和现金转移。在贫困和就业不足的青年样本进行，这项研究措施的培训计划的影响，不仅相对于一个控制组，但相对于简单地支付该计划的成本直接受益人的反事实。虽然培训计划成功地改善了许多核心成果（生产时间，资产，储蓄和主观幸福感），但成本等价现金转移会改变所有这些成果以及消费，收入和财富。在一对一的成本比较中，现金在许多经济成果上都有优势，而培训只在商业知识的生产方面优于现金。我们发现很少有证据表明人力资本和实物资本干预之间存在互补性，也没有异质性或溢出效应的迹象。
英文摘要：
We use a randomized experiment to compare a workforce training program to cash transfers in Rwanda. Conducted in a sample of poor and underemployed youth, this study measures the impact of the training program not only relative to a control group but relative to the counterfactual of simply disbursing the cost of the program directly to beneficiaries. While the training program was successful in improving a number of core outcomes (productive hours, assets, savings, and subjective well-being), cost-equivalent cash transfers move all these outcomes as well as consumption, income, and wealth. In the head-to-head costing comparison cash proves superior across a number of economic outcomes, while training outperforms cash only in the production of business knowledge. We find little evidence of complementarity between human and physical capital interventions, and no signs of heterogeneity or spillover effects.
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