{"type":"script","doc_desc":{"producers":[{"name":"Reproducibility WBG","abbr":"DECDI","affiliation":"World Bank - Development Impact Department","role":"Verification and preparation of metadata"}],"prod_date":"2026-02-27","version":"1"},"project_desc":{"authoring_entity":[{"name":"Clara Delavallade","affiliation":"World Bank","email":"cdelavallade@worldbank.org"},{"name":"Rachel Cassidy","affiliation":"World Bank","email":"rcassidy@ifc.org"},{"name":"Smita Das","affiliation":"Innovations for Poverty Action","email":"sdas@poverty-action.org"},{"name":"Elijah Kipchumba","affiliation":"Trinity College Dublin","email":"kipchume@tcd.ie"},{"name":"Munshi Sulaiman","affiliation":"Brac Institute of Governance and Development","email":"munshi.sulaiman@bracu.ac.bd"}],"title_statement":{"title":"Reproducibility package for Gender And Goals Matter For Youth Employment: Returns To Socio-Emotional Skills Training In Tanzania","idno":"RR_TZA_2026_577"},"data_statement":"All data is temporarily embargoed by the authors, and will be forthcoming on the World Bank Microdata Library.","software":[{"name":"Stata","version":"18 MP"}],"scripts":[{"title":"Reproducibility package for Gender And Goals Matter For Youth Employment: Returns To Socio-Emotional Skills Training In Tanzania","date":"2026-02","notes":"Computational reproducibility verified by Development Impact (DECDI) Analytics team, World Bank.","instructions":"See README in reproducibility package.","file_name":"RR_TZA_2026_577","zip_package":"RR_TZA_2026_577.zip","dependencies":"Stata dependencies are listed in the ado folder."}],"repository_uri":[{"name":"Reproducible Research Repository (World Bank)","uri":"https:\/\/reproducibility.worldbank.org"}],"production_date":"2026-02-27","abstract":"This paper evaluates a socio-emotional skills (SES) training programme for 4,728 urban Tanzanian youth who were not in full time employment, education, or training (NEET). A randomized design compared awareness (e.g., self-awareness, empathy, active listening), management (e.g., self-control, personal initiative, negotiation), and combined curricula. SES were measured using self-reported and behavioral indicators. Training increased self-reported SES in the short run across both domains, but had limited effects on behavioral measures, and all SES gains faded after one year. Modest but sustained employment gains were observed among men who were job seekers at baseline. Training did not improve labour market outcomes for women. We find no differential effects across training types, and each training affected skills in the alternative domain, suggesting that SES domains are interrelated.\nThese findings indicate that SES training may improve labor market outcomes only for specific subgroups, particularly in the absence of complementary interventions tackling barriers to employment.","geographic_units":[{"name":"Tanzania","code":"TZA"}],"keywords":[{"name":"Youth Employment"},{"name":"Socio-Emotional Skills"},{"name":"Training"},{"name":"Gender"},{"name":"Randomised Experiments"},{"name":"Field Experiments"}],"topics":[{"id":"C93","uri":"https:\/\/www.aeaweb.org\/econlit\/jelCodes.php?view=jel","vocabulary":"Journal of Economic Literature (JEL)","name":"Field Experiments","parent_id":"C9"},{"id":" J24","uri":"https:\/\/www.aeaweb.org\/econlit\/jelCodes.php?view=jel","vocabulary":"Journal of Economic Literature (JEL)","name":"Human Capital \u2022 Skills \u2022 Occupational Choice \u2022 Labor Productivity","parent_id":"J2"},{"id":" J46","uri":"https:\/\/www.aeaweb.org\/econlit\/jelCodes.php?view=jel","vocabulary":"Journal of Economic Literature (JEL)","name":"Informal Labor Markets","parent_id":"J4"},{"id":" O12","uri":"https:\/\/www.aeaweb.org\/econlit\/jelCodes.php?view=jel","vocabulary":"Journal of Economic Literature (JEL)","name":"Microeconomic Analyses of Economic Development","parent_id":"O1"}],"output":[{"type":"Working Paper","description":"Policy Research Working Papers (PRWP)","title":"Gender And Goals Matter For Youth Employment: Returns To Socio-Emotional Skills Training In Tanzania"}],"language":[{"name":"English","code":"EN"}],"technology_requirements":"Run time: ~ 5 minutes.","disclaimer":"The materials in the reproducibility packages are distributed as they were prepared by the staff of the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development\/The World Bank. The findings, interpretations, and conclusions expressed in this event do not necessarily reflect the views of the World Bank, the Executive Directors of the World Bank, or the governments they represent. The World Bank does not guarantee the accuracy of the materials included in the reproducibility package.","license":[{"name":"Modified BSD3","uri":"https:\/\/opensource.org\/license\/bsd-3-clause\/"}],"contacts":[{"name":"Clara Delavallade","affiliation":"World Bank","email":"cdelavallade@worldbank.org"},{"name":"Reproducibility WBG","affiliation":"World Bank","email":"reproducibility@worldbank.org"}],"reproduction_instructions":"To reproduce the findings in this paper, a replicator must:\n1. **Secure Access to Data:** Access the datasets not included in the package. See subsection Datasets for more details.\n2. **Download and Place Data:** Once the data is accessed, users should place it in the appropriate folder.\n3. **Run the Package:** After placing the data in the folder, update the global in line 67 of the do-file \"0_SES_Tan_Master\" to your folder's location and run the do-file.\n\nSince all the data is not included, the package includes the results produced by replicators. These files can be used to review the results presented in the paper. ","technology_environment":"Paper exhibits were reproduced on a computer with the following specifications:\n\u2022 OS: Windows 11 Enterprise\n\u2022 Processor: INTEL(R) XEON(R) PLATINUM 8562Y 2.80 GHz (4 processors)\n\u2022 Memory available: 32.0 GB","datasets":[{"name":"Socio-Emotional Skills (SEL) Tanzania \u2013 Impact Evaluation Datasets","note":"All datasets used were created as part of the project SEL Tanzania \u2013 Soft Skills Training Impact Evaluation. The package includes the Baseline Survey (May\u2013June 2021), Endline Survey (March 2022), Second Endline Survey (October\u2013November 2022), Training Attendance and Feedback dataset, and a constructed pooled Socio-Emotional Skills (SES) scores dataset derived from the survey waves. All files are labelled and exclude personally identifiable information (no PII).\n\nFiles: SES_scores_Tan_pooled.dta; SES_Tan_2nd_Endline_labelled_noPII_24Nov2022.dta; SES_Tan_Baseline_labelled_noPII_25Feb2022.dta; SES_Tan_Endline_labelled_noPII_24March2022.dta; Soft Skills Tanzania Trainee Attendance and Feedback_Clean.dta","citation":"Cassidy, R., Das, S., Delavallade, C., Kipchumba, E., & Munshi Sulaiman, M. (2022). Socio-Emotional Skills (SEL) Tanzania Impact Evaluation Surveys 2021\u20132022 [dataset]. World Bank, Africa Gender Innovation Lab & Innovations for Poverty Action.","access_type":"Data is currently embargoed while the paper is under review and will be forthcoming on the World Bank Microdata Library. \n\n"}]},"tags":[{"tag":"DOI"},{"tag":"Forthcoming Data"},{"tag":"Open Code"}],"schematype":"script"}