Abstract
We report the results of Lavoro&Psiche (L&P), a RCT which analyzes the
effectiveness of intensive and personalized support - provided by professional
operators named coach - on the probability of mentally disabled people to take
up paid work. The result of the intention-to-treat analysis, which measures the
effect of receiving the offer of service, shows a difference - not statistically significant
- by 5 percentage points between the employment rate of patients assigned
to the coach and that of control patients.
A different interpretation analyzes L&P as an Randomized Encouragement
Trial in which a particular treatment (the traineeship) is being actively promoted
by the coach only to a subset of users. With this analysis, having done a traineeship
increases the likelihood of obtaining an employment of 18.5 percentage
points. It is possible that, for the mentally disabled, the traineeship can be an effective
gateway into the labor market.
| Translated title of the contribution | [Autom. eng. transl.] What can be learned from experiments with partial compliance: the case of the unexpected effect of traineeships on the job placement of mentally disabled people |
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| Original language | Italian |
| Pages (from-to) | 30-44 |
| Number of pages | 15 |
| Journal | RIV. RASSEGNA ITALIANA DI VALUTAZIONE |
| Volume | 2015 |
| Publication status | Published - 2015 |
Keywords
- disabilità psichica: esperimento randomizzato controllato
- partial compliance
- psychiatric disabilities
- randomized controlled trial
- tirocinio
- traineeships