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While developed-country job training programs produce modest impacts, short-term private sector work experience in low-income contexts generates large wage returns (an approximate 80% wage increase or $3.83 per day), substantially outperforming traditional public sector training initiatives.
Policy interventions aiming to delay marriage and encourage female schooling often rely on costly direct cash transfers to households, which require massive funding compared to information-based market linkage programs [4].
Marketing insurance exclusively to cultivators reduces drought wages for landless laborers by 0.63 log points at the 30th percentile of rainfall, demonstrating that partial-equilibrium evaluations miss severe welfare losses among non-treated groups.
Varying recruitment messaging altered the baseline applicant population along major socioeconomic dimensions (rich +62%, employed +28%), demonstrating that randomized trial estimates reflect treatment effects on a selected subset rather than the broader eligible population.