General adult education of displaced workers in a recession: the effects on university enrollment and graduation

Figures & data

Figure 1. Sample means of graduation from university education, males (left) and females (right).

Table 1. Sample means for treated and potential control group, and p-values for the difference in means between treated and potential control group, and between treated and matched controls.

		Males					Females
	AE	No AE	p-val.	Matched p-val		AE	No AE	p-val.	Matched p-val
Age group 25 −29 (at $t_0$)	0.320	0.277	0.049	0.869		0.309	0.243	0.000	0.362
Age group 30+ (at $t_0$)	0.396	0.571	0.000	0.889		0.420	0.605	0.000	0.622
Born in Sweden	0.871	0.901	0.046	0.797		0.888	0.895	0.520	0.775
No. Children at home age 0–3	0.221	0.333	0.000	0.946		0.309	0.314	0.785	0.719
No. Children at home age 4–15	0.193	0.271	0.000	0.983		0.291	0.319	0.086	0.690
Sick benefits	0.112	0.108	0.589	0.830		0.226	0.212	0.725	0.645
Proportion of sick benefit of total income	0.019	0.012	0.018	0.603		0.038	0.036	0.656	0.984
Unemployment benefit	0.373	0.289	0.000	0.563		0.375	0.240	0.000	0.870
Difference in income ($t_{-2}-t_{-1}$)	36.0	9.4	0.405	0.772		49.1	15.6	0.118	0.958
Average income ($\left(t_{-3}+t_{-2}\right)/2$)	1930.3	2226.8	0.000	0.953		1360.0	1549.9	0.000	0.991
Employed at the same place from $t_{-3}$	0.492	0.595	0.000	0.905		0.512	0.608	0.670	0.636
Employed in $t_{-1}$ at a company with >250 workers	0.373	0.303	0.002	0.710		0.285	0.294	0.609	0.789
Workplace was shut down	0.427	0.405	0.371	0.809		0.308	0.315	0.641	0.927
Workplace was private	0.876	0.916	0.004	0.917		0.557	0.578	0.218	0.769
3-year high school education	0.214	0.215	0.961	0.901		0.281	0.268	0.422	0.903
GPA *	318.4	304.0	0.001	0.722		316.4	317.5	0.723	0.709
Military draft IQ test	0.534	0.489	0.067	0.932		no obs.
Education level mother ($\ge$ 2 years highschool)	0.625	0.498	0.000	0.847		0.590	0.475	0.000	0.692
Access to jobs	230000	200000	0.021	0.792		260000	240000	0.000	0.478
Nuts region 2 (NUTS1 level)	0.368	0.361	0.749	0.723		0.363	0.335	0.088	0.669
Nuts region 3 (NUTS1 level)	0.161	0.188	0.156	0.945		0.134	0.180	0.001	0.872
Cohort 1995	0.452	0.403	0.040	0.959		0.485	0.468	0.348	0.771
N (main sample)	429	17481				848	16854
N* (main sample plus GPA, age 20-27)	195	4655				340	4286

Figure 2. Estimates of ATT, full sample of males (left) and females (right) aged 20-50, 95% CI:s.

Figure 3. Estimates of ATT, males aged 20–27 using the main specification of the propensity score model (left) and main specification plus GPA (right), 95% CI:s.

Figure 4. Estimates of ATT, females aged 20–27 using the main specification of the propensity score model (left) and main specification plus GPA (right), 95% CI:s.

Figure 5. Estimates of ATT, males (left) and females (right) aged 28–50 using the main specification of the propensity score model, 95% CI:s.