Integrating mobile phone technologies into labor-market intermediation: a multi-treatment experimental design

IZA Journal of Labor & Development

Table 7 Impact of labor-market intermediation on other intermediate outcomes. Labor-Market Intermediation Program, Lima 2009-2010

	Internet-based	Weekly hours	Traditional job
	Job search	Internet search	Search
Overall treatment	0.062*	0.264**	−0.024
	(0.032)	(0.130)	(0.049)
Type of treatment
Traditional treatment (D^T1)	0.049	0.241	−0.007
	(0.038)	(0.160)	(0.065)
Restricted-SMS treatment (D^T2)	0.056	0.186	−0.005
	(0.046)	(0.172)	(0.094)
Unrestricted-SMS treatment (D^T3)	0.079*	0.336*	−0.054
	(0.042)	(0.202)	(0.082)
p-value of F-test: D^T1 = D^T2 = D^T3	0.765	0.792	0.678
N	1140	1140	517
Covariates	Yes	Yes	Yes
Experimental groups FE	Yes	Yes	Yes

Notes: Clustered standard errrors in parenthesis. Estimates based on a parametric cross-sectional estimator. Internet-based search outcome is captured for the full sample, and it is defined as 1 for those who have used the Internet within the three months of labor-market intermediation, 0 otherwise. Traditional job search and job expectations outcomes are captured only for the unemployed at the time of the follow-up interview. Control covariates are the same as those included in Table 4. ***statistically significant at 1%, **statistically significant at 5%, *statistically significant at 10%.