The Determinants of Participation in a Social Program: Evidence from a Prototypical Job Training Program
将一个典型职业培训项目的参与过程分解为资格、知晓、申请、接受和注册五个阶段，分析不同群体参与不平等的来源，发现个人选择和项目知晓是影响参与的主要因素。
This article decomposes the participation process of a prototypical program into eligibility, awareness, application, acceptance, and enrollment. With this decomposition, we determine the sources of unequal participation for different groups and demonstrate that variables often have very different effects at different stages in the participation process. Our analysis shows that personal choices substantially affect participation and that awareness of program eligibility is a major source of variation in participation.