Replication data for: Private and Public Provision of Counseling to Job Seekers: Evidence from a Large Controlled Experiment

Principal Investigator(s):  View help for Principal Investigator(s) Luc Behaghel; Bruno Crépon; Marc Gurgand

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Behaghel, Luc, Crépon, Bruno, and Gurgand, Marc. Replication data for: Private and Public Provision of Counseling to Job Seekers: Evidence from a Large Controlled Experiment. Nashville, TN: American Economic Association [publisher], 2014. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2019-10-12. https://doi.org/10.3886/E113904V1

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Summary:  View help for Summary This paper reports the results of a large-scaled randomized controlled experiment comparing the public and private provision of counseling to job seekers. The intention-to-treat estimates of both programs are not statistically different, but more workers were enrolled in the private program, implying an effect per beneficiary that is twice as large under the public as under the private program. We find suggestive evidence that the private firms may have insufficiently mastered the counseling technology, and exercised less effort on those who had the best chance to find a job. This highlights the incentive problems in designing contracts for these services.

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      J22 Time Allocation and Labor Supply
      J64 Unemployment: Models, Duration, Incidence, and Job Search
      J68 Mobility, Unemployment, and Vacancies: Public Policy


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