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The Determinants of Participation in a Social Program: Evidence from a Prototypical Job Training Program

James J. Heckman¹; Jeffrey A. Smith²

¹ University of Chicago · ² University of Maryland, College Park

This article decomposes the participation process of a prototypical program into eligibility, awareness, application, acceptance, and enrollment. With this decomposition, we determine the sources of unequal participation for different groups and demonstrate that variables often have very different effects at different stages in the participation process. Our analysis shows that personal choices substantially affect participation and that awareness of program eligibility is a major source of variation in participation.

DOI

10.1086/381250

Volume

22 (2)

Pages

243-298

Language

en

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