ABSTRACT

This study presents an evaluation of the International Labour Organization (ILO) Training for Rural Economic Empowerment (TREE) programme as implemented in Zimbabwe. The programme’s goal was to improve the labour market outcomes of young people in rural areas. We apply Propensity Score Matching and Difference-in-Differences methods on a two-period retrospective panel data survey (2011 and 2014) to control for biases stemming from observed and unobserved time-invariant characteristics between TREE beneficiaries and a constructed control group. We find that TREE increased beneficiaries’ income by US $787, as well as child and health expenditures by US $236 and US $101, respectively, compared to non-beneficiaries over the 2011–2014 programme implementation period.

摘要

本研究报告对津巴布韦实施的国际劳工组织（ILO）农村经济赋权培训（TREE）计划进行了评估。该方案的目标是改善农村地区年轻人的劳动力市场成果。我们对两期回顾性面板数据调查（2011年和2014年）应用倾向得分匹配和差异差异方法，以控制TREE受益人与已建立的对照组之间因观察到的和未观察到的时不变特征而产生的偏差。我们发现，与2011-2014年计划实施期间的非受益人相比，TREE的受益人收入分别增加了787美元，儿童和医疗保健支出分别增加了236美元和101美元。