Volume 18, Number 4 (Fall) 1983
Bassi, Laurie J. 1983. "The Effect of CETA on the Postprogram Earnings of Participants." Journal of Human Resources 18(4):539-556.
This paper is a report of a study of efforts to use the Continuous Longitudinal Manpower Survey to estimate the effect that CET A has had on the posttraining earnings of participants. Particular attention is given to developing estimates that are free of selection bias-whether it results from nonrandom self-selection or selection by program administrators. The results indicate that CETA has had a positive and often significant effect on the earnings of participants, and that women benefit more from participation than do men. Among the various program activities that have been available under CETA, no one program is clearly more beneficial than the others.
The author is a member of the Economics faculty at Georgetown University.
* This research was supported by contract number B9MI0505 from the Office of
Assistant Secretary for Policy, Evaluation, and Research, U.S. Department of
Labor, and by a grant from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation to The Urban
Institute. The opinions expressed are my own and do not represent the official
position of the Department of Labor, the Sloan Foundation, The Urban Institute,
or Georgetown University. I would like to thank O. Ashenfelter, J. Brown, F.
Levy, P. Moss, I. Sawhill, and two anonymous referees for helpful comments.
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