Do Workforce Development Programs Bridge the Skills Gap

We thank seminar participants at Arizona State University, Carnegie Mellon, the Cleveland Fed, Columbia, the Family and Education Workshop 2025, the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta, the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas, the Markets with Frictions Tinos Edition, NBER Organizational Economics, SITE: The Micro and Macro of Labor Markets, Society of Labor Economics, San Diego State University, SEML, University of Michigan, and the University of Rochester. We are indebted to Kalab Begna, Edoardo Bella, Klint Mane, and Sid Satya for excellent research assistance and to an excellent team of undergraduate students who assisted us with data collection and validation. This project was funded in part by generous support from the Smith Richardson Foundation. All views expressed in this paper are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views or policies of the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics or of the National Bureau of Economic Research.