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1 digital object.

Description

This collection includes the data and script used to generate the analysis presented in "The Impact of Job Training on Temporary Worker Performance: Field Experimental Evidence from Insurance Sales Agents" published in the Journal of Economics and Management Strategy. The analysis reports the results of a field experiment run among sales agents contracted to sell index-based livestock insurance over a two month period in Kenya. The field experiment randomized access to mobile-phone based job training, and incentives for investing in this training. The findings show that providing access to training significantly increases firm revenue, primarily due to performance increases among higher ability workers. The findings from the study are consistent with temporary workers willingness to invest in job training when the job-specific returns from doing so are sufficiently high.

Date Collected

• 2015-01-01 to 2016-02-29

Date Issued

• 2019

Author

• Lyons, Elizabeth

Technical Details

Analysis was run in Stata (version 14)

To replicate the analysis presented in "The Impact of Job Training on Temporary Worker Performance: Field Experimental Evidence from Insurance Sales Agents":
- Save data and .do files provided by author in a single folder
- Create two new subfolders within that folder, one titled "Analysis" and the other titled "Data"
- Open "jobtraining_lyons_analysis.do"
- Enter the global project path under "Set Global Project Path" header in the .do file
- Run "jobtraining_lyons_analysis.do"

Funding

Policy Design & Evaluation Lab (UC San Diego)

The Center on Global Transformation (UC San Diego)

Geographic

• Kenya

Topics

• Field experiment
• Job training
• Temporary employment

Format

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• data

Language

• English

Identifier

Identifier: Elizabeth Lyons: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2334-2153

Related Resource

Primary associated publication

• Lyons, E. The impact of job training on temporary worker performance: Field experimental evidence from insurance sales agents. J Econ Manage Strat. 2019; 1– 25. https://doi.org/10.1111/jems.12333