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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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Do information technologies improve teenagers' sexual education? : evidence from a randomized evaluation in Colombia

Chong, Alberto; González-Navarro, Marco; Karlan, Dean; … - 2019

This study reports results from a randomized evaluation of a mandatory six-month Internet-based sexual education course implemented across public junior high schools in 21 Colombian cities. Six months after finishing the course, the study finds a 0.4 standard deviation improvement in knowledge,...

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The economic lives of young women in the time of Ebola : lessons from an empowerment program

Bandiera, Oriana; Buehren, Niklas; Goldstein, Markus P.; … - 2019

This paper evaluates an intervention to raise young women's economic empowerment in Sierra Leone, where women frequently experience sexual violence and face multiple economic disadvantages. The intervention provides them with a protective space (a club) where they can find support, receive...

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A skills-based human capital framework to understand the phenomenon of youth economic disengagement

Angel-Urdinola, Diego F.; Mayer Gukovas, Renata - 2018

accumulation, anchored in skills development, to illustrate the phenomenon and implications of youth economic disengagement. In the … framework, youth economic disengagement is defined as a state (temporary or permanent) where individuals stop accumulating human …

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The use of financial incentives to prevent undesirable behaviors

De Walque, Damien - 2018

Behaviors that are putting people's health and well-being at risk are widespread in the developing world and some of them, like smoking and unhealthy diets, are on the rise. Some of these behaviors can be prohibited or prevented by taxation. But financial incentives such as conditional cash...

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Impact of conflict on adolescent girls in South Sudan

Pape, Utz Johann; Phipps, Verena - 2018

Violent conflict and instability affect men and women in heterogeneous ways, including differentiated impacts on economic, social, physical, and mental well-being. This study assesses the impact of the post-2013 conflict in South Sudan on adolescent girls and young women. The analysis uses data...

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Skills and Jobs in Brazil : An Agenda for Youth

Almeida, Rita K. - 2018

Skills and Jobs in Brazil: An Agenda for Youth is a new report focusing on the challenge of economic engagement among … the Brazilian youth. In the context of a fast aging population, Brazil's greatest economic opportunity is to increase its … labor productivity, especially that of youth. This report documents important new facts about the extent of the youth …

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Back to School : Pathways for Reengagement of Out-of-School Youth in Education

Rajasekaran, Subhashini - 2009

"Back to School: Pathways for Reengagement of Out-of-School Youth in Education" focuses on a social and global problem …--200 million adolescents and youth are out of school, live in adverse life circumstances, and face multiple disadvantages … variations in both individual and contextual characteristics of the targeted youth. The synthesized findings from this review are …

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Harnessing Youth Potential in Ghana

World Bank - 2016

This policy note provides a view of the main challenges facing Ghana youth and proposes policy options to address them …. The note: (i) highlights youth key characteristics from the perspective of their skills and jobs and the constraints they … face, (ii) describes the institutional set up and strategy governing youth employment interventions in Ghana and what is …

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