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removal, youth are twice as likely to be charged with an illicit income-generating offense than they are to maintain steady …
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The minimum wage is increasingly viewed as an important tool for improving public health outcomes, including reducing childbearing among teenagers. Taken at face value, recently reported estimates suggest that raising the federal minimum wage to $15 per hour could reduce the number of teenage...
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tanning using a difference-in-differences research design. We find that youth ITB prohibitions reduced population search … increased sun protective behaviors. We also find that youth ITB prohibitions significantly reduced the size of the indoor …
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Over the past decade, rising youth use of e-cigarettes and other electronic nicotine delivery systems (ENDS) has … (Monitoring the Future and the Youth Risk Behavior Surveillance System), this study explores the impact of ENDS taxes on youth … tobacco use. We find that ENDS taxes reduce youth e-cigarette consumption, with estimated e-cigarette tax elasticities of -0 …
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The authors begin with the hypothesis that parental contacts play a major role in finding jobs for youth. This … hypothesis is tested with a model of youth employment that includes characteristics of other family members in addition to a …'s ability to assist the youth in finding a job, including occupation, industry and education. The effects of such variables are …
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The My Brother's Keeper (MBK) Challenge developed by President Obama supports communities that promote civic initiatives designed to improve the educational and economic opportunities specifically for young men of color. In Oakland, California, the MBK educational initiative features the African...
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In 2008, Uganda granted hundreds of small groups $400/person to help members start individual skilled trades. Four years on, an experimental evaluation found grants raised earnings by 38% (Blattman, Fiala, Martinez 2014). We return after 9 years to find these start-up grants acted more as a...
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youth bicycling. We find this result in standard two-way fixed effects models of parental reports of youth bicycling, as …
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We use data from the National Longitudinal Surveys of Youth 1979 and 1997 cohorts to compare welfare use, fertility …
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variety of outcomes for youth. These include alcohol consumption, excessive consumption, motor vehicle accident mortality, and …
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