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Can Public Works Programs Reduce Youth Crime? Evidence from Papua New Guinea's Urban Youth Employment Project
Ivaschenko, Oleksiy - 2017
Crime rates in Papua New Guinea's capital city of Port Moresby are among the highest in the world. Few youth work, and … Urban Youth Employment Project. The project offers out-of-school and out-of-work youth two months of public works employment … completion. The control group consists of observably similar youth living in areas not served by the program. Project …
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Report Cards : The Impact of Providing School and Child Test Scores on Educational Markets
Andrabi, Tahir - 2015
This paper studies study the impact of providing school and child test scores on subsequent test scores, prices, and enrollment in markets with multiple public and private providers. A randomly selected half of the sample villages (markets) received report cards. This increased test scores by...
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Intrinsic religiosity, personality traits, and adolescent risky behaviors
Mendolia, Silvia; Paloyo, Alfredo R.; Walker, Ian - In: The B.E. journal of economic analysis & policy 19 (2019) 3, pp. 1-16
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Impact of voucher design on public school performance : evidence from Florida and Milwaukee voucher programs
Chakrabarti, Rajashri - In: The B.E. journal of economic analysis & policy 13 (2013) 1, pp. 349-394
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Are there treatment duration differences in the Seattle and Denver income maintenance experiments?
Stephens, Melvin (contributor) - In: The B.E. journal of economic analysis & policy 7 (2007) 1, pp. 1-41
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Warrantless arrest laws for domestic violence : how are youth affected?
Dasgupta, Kabir; Pacheco, Gail - In: The B.E. journal of economic analysis & policy 18 (2018) 1, pp. 1-20
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Tobacco use as response to economic insecurity : evidence from the national longitudinal survey of youth
Barnes, Michael G.; Smith, Trenton G. - In: The B.E. journal of economic analysis & policy 9 (2009) 1, pp. 1-27
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The impact of voluntary youth service on future outcomes : evidence from Teach For America
Dobbie, Will; Fryer, Roland G. <Jr.> - In: The B.E. journal of economic analysis & policy 15 (2015) 3, pp. 1031-1065
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The effect of alcohol consumption on labor market outcomes of young adults : evidence from minimum legal drinking age laws
Yörük, Ceren Ertan - In: The B.E. journal of economic analysis & policy 15 (2015) 3, pp. 1297-1324
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On the design of educational conditional cash transfer programs and their impact on non-education outcomes : the case of teenage pregnancy
Cortés, Darwin; Gallego, Juan Miguel; Maldonado, Darío - In: The B.E. journal of economic analysis & policy 16 (2016) 1, pp. 219-258
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