Wiji Arulampalam
Wiji Arulampalam is a professor of economics at the University of Warwick. Her research interests include econometrics, applications in development, education, health, labour, and public economics.
Content by Wiji Arulampalam
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Blog post
Informing youth about job opportunities to make training programmes more effective
Launched in 2014 by the central government, Deen Dayal Upadhyaya Garmeen Kaushalya Yojana seeks to provide skills-based training to rural, marginalised youth, and to place them in salaried jobs. Based on an experiment conducted in Bihar and Jharkhand, this article shows that providing detailed information about the programme and prospective jobs to the trainees, helps align...
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Publication - Policy Brief
Making training programmes more effective: Evidence from the DDU-GKY programme in India
To tackle youth unemployment, the Indian government implements large-scale training programmes combined with job placement. The effectiveness of these programmes is hampered by high drop-out rates.
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Project
Improving skills in Bihar: How to reduce drop-out rates from training programmes?
India, like other developing countries, suffers from low productivity of labour (Bloom et al. 2014). Training the labour force is the primary policy to increase skills and labour productivity. However, the literature has shown that designing successful training programmes is difficult (Blattman and Ralston 2016, McKenzie 2017). In many instances, they suffer from low...