Return migration and the value of foreign college degrees: Evidence from Indonesia

Last registered on July 02, 2019

Pre-Trial

Trial Information

General Information

Title
Return migration and the value of foreign college degrees: Evidence from Indonesia
RCT ID
AEARCTR-0004337
Initial registration date
June 21, 2019

Initial registration date is when the trial was registered.

It corresponds to when the registration was submitted to the Registry to be reviewed for publication.

First published
July 02, 2019, 2:53 PM EDT

First published corresponds to when the trial was first made public on the Registry after being reviewed.

Locations

Region

Primary Investigator

Affiliation
Bernhard Nocht Institute for Tropical Medicine (BNITM)

Other Primary Investigator(s)

Additional Trial Information

Status
Completed
Start date
2015-08-17
End date
2019-06-21
Secondary IDs
Abstract
In this study we examine labor market prospects for international educational return migrants in Indonesia. The RCT was conducted in the 2nd half of 2015 and employs a correspondence study design to examine callback differences for different types of recent college graduates. More specifically, we look into callback differences between educational return migrants, persons who took their undergraduate degree abroad, and persons who graduated from Indonesian colleges. In total we sent out 12,000 resumes for 3,000 job vacancies.
External Link(s)

Registration Citation

Citation
Priebe, Jan. 2019. "Return migration and the value of foreign college degrees: Evidence from Indonesia." AEA RCT Registry. July 02. https://doi.org/10.1257/rct.4337-1.0
Former Citation
Priebe, Jan. 2019. "Return migration and the value of foreign college degrees: Evidence from Indonesia." AEA RCT Registry. July 02. https://www.socialscienceregistry.org/trials/4337/history/49137
Experimental Details

Interventions

Intervention(s)
The applied correspondence study involves sending out fictious CVs to vacancies posted on online job platforms in the area of Greater Jakarta. In total CVs were sent to 3,000 job postings.
The main objective of the study is to examine how employers treat educational migrants (those who studies abroad and return after their study) compared to persons who graduated from local Indonesian colleges.
Intervention (Hidden)
Intervention Start Date
2015-09-08
Intervention End Date
2015-10-31

Primary Outcomes

Primary Outcomes (end points)
callback rates
Primary Outcomes (explanation)

Secondary Outcomes

Secondary Outcomes (end points)
Secondary Outcomes (explanation)

Experimental Design

Experimental Design
CVs were sent to 3,000 job postings. Each job posting received 4 different types of resumes.
Experimental Design Details
The four types involved:
- Type 1: study abroad at an international elite college
- Type 2: study abroad at an international non-elite college
- Type 3: study at domestic elite college
- Type 4: study at domestic non-elite college
Randomization Method
randomization done in office by a computer
Randomization Unit
Job vacancies
Was the treatment clustered?
Yes

Experiment Characteristics

Sample size: planned number of clusters
3000
Sample size: planned number of observations
12,000
Sample size (or number of clusters) by treatment arms
3,000 resumes per treatment arm
Minimum detectable effect size for main outcomes (accounting for sample design and clustering)
IRB

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IRB Approval Date
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Post-Trial

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Intervention

Is the intervention completed?
No
Data Collection Complete
Data Publication

Data Publication

Is public data available?
No

Program Files

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