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Disadvantaged youth, aspirations and the labor market: evidence from a field experiment in Brazil
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A growing literature from different social sciences shows that education, labor market, and other life outcomes depend not only on cognitive skills, as traditionally considered, but also on the non-cognitive ones, as well as on aspirationsand expectations. We conducted an impact evaluation of a program that aims to enhance these traitsina disadvantaged youth group froma poor neighborhood of São Paulo,Brazil, in the middle of the 2019 novel coronavirus crisis (COVID-19). Theintervention was builtoninformation provision, initiative tasks, and individual coaching forstudents enrolled inaprofessional qualification course.Our results show that,even duringa negative macroeconomic shock, students’internal locus of controland aspirations related to taking an entrance exam for higher education were increased,suggesting promising results related to virtual and less costly interventions within an individual non-cognitive scope.
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Aspirations Expectations Non-Cognitive Skills Education Disadvantaged Youth E-Learning Covid-19