Inspiration: evaluation methods
Year of the evaluation publication:
2018
Country or region covered:
Latvia
Owner of the evaluation:
European Commission
Type of owner:
public - international organisation
Year when the evaluation was conducted:
2018
Sector:
Youth employment
Intervention described and evaluated:
the vocational training (VT) programme introduced in Latvia in 2014 and targeted at unemployed youth
Methodological approach:
This report uses counterfactual impact evaluation (CIE) methods (a Fuzzy Regression Discontinuity Design (FRDD)) to estimate its causal impact on young individuals’ labour market outcomes. The Counterfactual Impact Evaluation (CIE) of the vocational training programme implemented in Latvia under the Youth Guarantee schemes was carried out within the "Data Fitness Initiative for CIE," launched in February 2016 by the Directorate General Employment, Social Afairs and Inclusion (DG EMPL) and the Centre for Research on Impact Evaluation (CRIE) to promote the use of CIE for the assessment of European Social Fund (ESF) interventions.
Language of the evaluation:
English
Language of the Executive summary:
n/a