Evaluation of entra 21 using Quantitative and Qualitative Data María Laura Alzúa IEFAL-Fundación Mediterránea, Argentina Email: malzua@ieral.org Paula Nahirñak IEFAL-Fundación Mediterránea, Argentina Email: paulan@ieral.org Belissario Alvarez de Toledo IEFAL-Fundación Mediterránea, Argentina Click here to download working paper

Abstract
The paper evaluates entra 21, a training program conducted by the Inter-national Youth foundation (IYF) co-financed by the MIF at the IADB, USAID and other international donors We apply a non-experimental evaluation in order to answer the following questions: (a) did the program increase the probability of employment? (b) did it increase the probability of formal employment? (c) did it increase the labor income of trainees? We used propensity score matching estimators given the quantitative data available. We also present qualitative results of two different sources: one results from conducting interview to participating NGOS and another one from interviewing beneficiaries