Does Vocational Education Work? Evidence from a Randomized Experiment in Mongolia

We would like to thank Matthew Bombyk, Jihae Hong, Jamie Johnston, Ken Lee, Ricardo Morel and Richard Sawyer from Innovation for Poverty Action; Richard Gaeta, Rebecca Goldsmith, Jack Molyneaux, Ryan Moore, Sophia Sahaf, Marc Shapiro, Cindy Sobieski, Jennifer Sturdy from the Millennium Challenge Corporation; and Boloroo N and Uuganbayar B. from the Millennium Challenge Account – Mongolia for all their help over the course of the project. Marius Karabaczek provided invaluable research assistance. The data collection and IPA’s evaluation design support were funded by the Millennium Challenge Corporation for MCC’s Vocational Education Project Evaluation. It was also supported by grant P2CHD042849 Population Research Center, awarded to the Population Research Center at The University of Texas at Austin by the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development. The content is solely the responsibility of the authors and does not necessarily represent the official views of the National Institutes of Health or the Millennium Challenge Corporation. The views expressed herein are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Bureau of Economic Research.