The impact of soft skills training on female youth employment: evidence from a randomized experiment in Jordan

IZA Journal of Labor & Development

Table 5 Impacts on well-being, empowerment, attitudes, and marriage

	Life ladder	Life ladder future	MHI-5	Severely poor mental health	Mobility index	Empowerment index	Married at 2nd follow-up
Assigned to soft skills	−0.230*	0.233**	0.307	−0.033	0.381***	0.025	−0.019
	(0.133)	(0.105)	(0.209)	(0.022)	(0.096)	(0.051)	(0.027)
Control mean	5.207	8.043	19.193	0.204	4.966	4.822	0.323
Sample size	1249	1249	1249	1249	1249	1249	1249

Note: Robust standard errors in parentheses. All regressions include stratification dummies. Severely poor mental health denotes the MHI-5 index is below 17
*, **, and *** denote significance at the 10, 5, and 1 % levels, respectively