The Impact of Short-Term Employment for Low-Income Youth: Experimental Evidence from the Philippines

We thank the Institute of Labor Studies and Department of Labor and Employment staff who have made this study possible. We are especially thankful to the members of the SPES Technical Working Group for their guidance and support. Funding for this project was provided by the International Initiative for Impact Evaluation (3ie) and the Australian Government's Department of Foreign Affairs under the 3ie Policy Window grant program. The Human Subjects Committee for Innovations for Poverty Action provided oversight for this project, “Youth and Student Employment (SPES),” protocol no. 9935. This work has benefited tremendously from feedback from Eric Edmonds, Anne Fitzpatrick, Leigh Linden, and Diego Ubfal; seminar and conference participants at the Asian Development Bank, Colby College, Dartmouth College, Northeastern Economics of Education Workshop, Philippine Institute of Development Studies, the University of Texas at Austin, and the 2018 Jobs and Development Conference; and two anonymous referees. We thank Heather Richmond for outstanding project coordination and assistance, Jose Marie Gonzalez and Grace Labalan for outstanding project management, and the IPA-Philippines field staff for dedicated data collection. Dina Emam, Minh Phuong La, Guido Maschhaupt, and Nick Manderlink provided excellent research assistance.

A supplemental appendix is available online at https://doi.org/10.1162/rest_a_01135.