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program_targeting
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Firms & operationsExperience-Based Training TargetingRole model interventions yielded substantially larger income and growth impacts for younger businesses with less experienced owners, whereas individualized technical assistance delivered greater benefits for highly educated owners with mature businesses.RCTLabour & employmentHeterogeneous Impact DisparityThe upper quartile of participants who benefited most from the program saw short-term earnings increase by 2.2 times the earnings gain experienced by participants in the lowest quartile.RCTCrime & justicePeer Group Composition Constraints in Program TargetingWhile 100% of crime reduction cost savings ($652–$1,250 per participant) stem from the 3% at-risk subgroup, universal open-enrollment programs embed at-risk youth in a broader peer group where 97% of participants have no criminal record, preventing adverse peer contagion.Expert TheoryEconomics (general)Prior Criminal Risk Heterogeneity in Youth Employment OutcomesLow-risk youth (97% of the cohort) show precisely estimated zero effects for contemporaneous crime reduction, ruling out arrest decreases greater than 0.9 per 1,000 youth. Virtually all statistically significant reductions in summer arrests and convictions are concentrated in the 3% at-risk population.RCT