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Teenage Childbearing and Its Life Cycle Consequences : Exploiting a Natural Experiment

Hotz, V. Joseph - 1999

of Youth, 1979 (NLSY79). Our major finding is that many of the negative consequences of not delaying childbearing until …

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When Scale and Replication Work : Learning from Summer Youth Employment Experiments

Heller, Sara - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

trials of summer youth employment programs in Chicago and Philadelphia to demonstrate how multiple experiments can help …; youth at higher risk of socially costly outcomes experience larger benefits. Identifying more interventions that combine …

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Heterogeneity in Place Effects on Health : The Case of Time Preferences and Adolescent Obesity

Datar, Ashlesha; Nicosia, Nancy; Samek, Anya Savikhin - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

We leverage a natural experiment in combination with data on adolescents' time preferences to assess whether there is heterogeneity in place effects on adolescent obesity. We exploit the plausibly exogenous assignment of military servicemembers, and consequently their children, to different...

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Impacts of Industrial and Entrepreneurial Jobs on Youth : 5-year Experimental Evidence on Factory Job Offers and Cash Grants in Ethiopia

Blattman, Christopher - 2019

We study two interventions for underemployed youth across five Ethiopian sites: a $300 grant to spur self …

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Reshaping Adolescents' Gender Attitudes : Evidence from a School-Based Experiment in India

Dhar, Diva - 2018

Societal norms about gender roles contribute to the economic disadvantages facing women in many developing countries. This paper evaluates an intervention aimed at eroding support for restrictive gender norms, specifically a multi-year school-based intervention in Haryana, India, that engaged...

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An Experimental Test of Criminal Behavior Among Juveniles and Young Adults

Visser, Michael S. - 2006

We report results from economic experiments that provide a direct test of the hypothesis that criminal behavior responds rationally to changes in the possible rewards and in the probability and severity of punishment. The experiments involve decisions that are best described as petty larceny,...

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The (Surprising) Efficacy of Academic and Behavioral Intervention with Disadvantaged Youth : Results from a Randomized Experiment in Chicago

Cook, Philip J. - 2014

There is growing concern that improving the academic skills of disadvantaged youth is too difficult and costly, so … school success: "mismatch" between what schools deliver and the needs of disadvantaged youth who have fallen behind in their … provides disadvantaged youth with non-academic supports that try to teach youth social-cognitive skills based on the principles …

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United States / Congress / Senate / Committee on the … - 1970

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Does Saving Cause Borrowing?

Medina, Paolina C.; Pagel, Michaela - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

We study whether savings nudges have the unintended consequence of additional borrowing in high-interest credit. We use data from a pre-registered experiment that encouraged 3.1 million bank customers to save via SMS messages and train a machine learning algorithm to predict individual-level...

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Testing the Effectiveness of Consumer Financial Disclosure : Experimental Evidence from Savings Accounts

Adams, Paul D. - 2019

Disclosure--the practice of providing information to support decision making--has been widely mandated in public policy but is routinely ignored by consumers and subject to obfuscation by firms. Yet most evidence on the effectiveness of consumer financial disclosure stems from lab experiments...

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