Séminaire BSE – programme 3

Clara Delavallade

(Banque Mondiale)

“Measuring and improving socio-emotional skills among young unemployed men and women in Tanzania”

Individuals’ socio-emotional skills (SES) and their perceptions of their own SES both matter for labor market outcomes, as well as for a host of other economic and welfare outcomes. We deploy novel sets of self-reported and behavioral measures of 14 SES among over 4,000 male and female youth not in full-time education, employment or training (NEET), in urban and peri-urban Tanzania. We find that men have higher levels of self-reported SES than women. These self-reports are strongly correlated with social desirability and internalized conservative gender norms. By contrast, gender gaps on behavioral measures are only observed for a limited number of skills and far smaller in magnitude. There is a larger gap between self-reported and behavioral measures among men, and we provide suggestive evidence that this reflects men’s overestimation of their own skills, rather than women’s underestimation. We next examine the impact of various SES trainings on labor market outcomes for this NEET population. We find that skill perceptions matter for labor market outcomes and that impacts of SES trainings are concentrated among those initially searching for a job.

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