Youth Internship Impact Evaluation 2015
Yemen, Rep., 2015
David McKenzie
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Identification
Survey ID Number
YEM_2015_YIIE_v01_M
Title
Youth Internship Impact Evaluation 2015
Country/Economy
| Name | Country code |
|---|---|
| Yemen, Rep. | YEM |
Study type
Labor Force Survey
Abstract
The Yemen Youth Internship Impact Evaluation 2015 evaluates a youth internship program in the Republic of Yemen that provided firms with a 50 percent subsidy to hire recent graduates of universities and vocational schools. The first round of the program took place in 2014 and required both firms and youth to apply for the program. A short-term follow-up survey conducted just as civil conflict was breaking out shows that internship recipients had better employment outcomes than the control group in the first five months after the program ended.
Kind of Data
Sample survey data [ssd]
Unit of Analysis
Individual Youth who applied for an internship program
Scope
Notes
The scope of the survey includes: age, gender, employment, city, marital status, income, occupation, public or private sector employer, internship.
Coverage
Geographic Coverage
Survey of Youth in Sanaa and Aden
Universe
Youth who applied for an internship program
Producers and sponsors
Primary investigators
| Name | Affiliation |
|---|---|
| David McKenzie | World Bank Group |
Producers
| Name | Affiliation | Role |
|---|---|---|
| Ana Paula Cusolito | World Bank Group | co-PI |
| Nabila Assaf | World Bank Group | co-PI |
Funding Agency/Sponsor
| Name | Role |
|---|---|
| Umbrella Facility for Gender Equality | Funder |
Sampling
Sampling Procedure
3,487 youth applied for the program. After firms had indicated their demand for interns, these jobs were mapped to specializations of study. For some positions there was a single specialization that was relevant (e.g. a firm requesting interns for a dentistry position had this job mapped just to applicants who had studied dentistry), while for others several specializations were considered suitable (e.g. for firms requiring interns in business administration positions, the specializations of business administration, office management, and management were all considered suitable). Based on this potential demand, SMEPS randomly chose a sample of 500 applicants with probability proportion to demand.
The 500 applicants invited to the two-day training were randomly assigned to treatment and control groups. Random assignment effectively occurred within strata defined by specialization and city. In all there are 231 such strata, but many of these contain few individuals in specializations with no market demand, so only 39 strata were used.
Finally, additional individuals who had not gone through the two-day training were randomly selected to boost numbers for some positions. Randomization was done internally at SMEPS using Excel. The resulting experimental sample consists of 583 youth, of which 430 (318 male, 112 female) were allocated to treatment, and 153 (105 male, 48 female) to control.
The 500 applicants invited to the two-day training were randomly assigned to treatment and control groups. Random assignment effectively occurred within strata defined by specialization and city. In all there are 231 such strata, but many of these contain few individuals in specializations with no market demand, so only 39 strata were used.
Finally, additional individuals who had not gone through the two-day training were randomly selected to boost numbers for some positions. Randomization was done internally at SMEPS using Excel. The resulting experimental sample consists of 583 youth, of which 430 (318 male, 112 female) were allocated to treatment, and 153 (105 male, 48 female) to control.
Response Rate
The follow-up survey had a response rate of 78.7% (78.1% treatment, 80.4% control, p-value of test of equality 0.666).
Data Collection
Dates of Data Collection
| Start | End |
|---|---|
| 2015-03 | 2015-03 |
Data Collection Mode
Computer Assisted Telephone Interview [cati]
Data Collection Notes
Three main sources of data were used. The first consists of baseline information available from the applications. The second consists of administrative data from the program, which provides key information on initial take-up of the internship, and internship completion rates. The third and main source of data comes from a follow-up survey.The surveys were originally planned at 6 months and 12 months after the end of the internship. However, with the worsening situation in Yemen, a follow-up survey was quickly launched in March 2015. This timing took place 3-6 months after the end of the internships, and right before civil conflict broke out. The survey was conducted as a phone survey given that safety issues, gas shortages, and time constraints prohibited an in-person survey.
Data Collectors
| Name |
|---|
| Apex consulting |
Questionnaires
Questionnaires
The survey asked questions about employment during 2014 to capture the time of the internship, and then questions about employment in the months of December 2014 and February 2015 to capture post-treatment employment outcomes.
Access policy
Contacts
| Name | Affiliation | |
|---|---|---|
| David McKenzie | World Bank Group | dmckenzie@worldbank.org |
Confidentiality
Identifying information has been removed
Access conditions
Public use for research purposes only
Citation requirements
Use of the dataset must be acknowledged using a citation which would include:
- the identification of the primary investigator,
- the title of the survey (including country, acronym and year of implementation),
- the survey reference number,
- the source and date of download.
Example,
David McKenzie, Nabila Assaf and Ana Paula Cusolito, World Bank, The Demand for, and Impact of, Youth Internships: Evidence from a Randomized Experiment in Yemen 2015, World Bank Policy Research Working Paper no. 7463, Ref. YEM_2015_YIIE_v01_M, Dataset downloaded from [url] on [date].
- the identification of the primary investigator,
- the title of the survey (including country, acronym and year of implementation),
- the survey reference number,
- the source and date of download.
Example,
David McKenzie, Nabila Assaf and Ana Paula Cusolito, World Bank, The Demand for, and Impact of, Youth Internships: Evidence from a Randomized Experiment in Yemen 2015, World Bank Policy Research Working Paper no. 7463, Ref. YEM_2015_YIIE_v01_M, Dataset downloaded from [url] on [date].
Disclaimer and copyrights
Disclaimer
The user of the data acknowledges that the original collector of the data, the authorized distributor of the data, and the relevant funding agency bear no responsibility for use of the data or for interpretations or inferences based upon such uses.
Metadata production
DDI Document ID
DDI_YEM_2015_YIIE_v01_M_WB
Producers
| Name | Abbreviation | Affiliation | Role |
|---|---|---|---|
| Development Data Group | DECDG | The World Bank | Documentation of the DDI |
Date of Metadata Production
2015-11-11
DDI Document version
Version 01 (November 2015)