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The problems of disadvantaged youth : an economic perspective

Gruber, Jonathan (ed.) - 2009

Introduction: what have we learned about the problems of and prospects for disadvantaged youth? / Jonathan Gruber … -- Education : the behavioral consequences of pre-kindergarten participation for disadvantaged youth / David Figlio and Jeffrey … Berry Cullen and Brian A. Jacob -- Would more compulsory schooling help disadvantaged youth? : evidence from recent changes …

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State Merit Aid Programs and Youth Labor Market Attachment

Frisvold, David E. - 2018

This paper examines the impact of state merit-aid programs on the labor market attachment of high school-aged youths. The labor force participation rate of teenagers has fallen substantially in recent decades, coinciding with the introduction of merit-aid programs. These programs reduce the...

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Cognitive Performance and Labor Market Outcomes

Lin, Dajun - 2016

We use information from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1979 (NLSY79) and supplementary data sources to …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012456207

Curse of Anonymity or Tyranny of Distance? The Impacts of Job-Search Support in Urban Ethiopia

Abebe, Girum - 2016

We conduct a randomized evaluation of two job-search support programs for urban youth in Ethiopia. One group of treated …

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The Rising Well-Being of the Young

Blanchflower, David G. - 1997

Many observers believe that times are growing harder for young people in Western society. This paper looks at the evidence and finds that conventional wisdom appears to be wrong. Using the U.S. General Social Surveys and the Eurobarometer Surveys, the paper studies the reported happiness and...

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Happiness at Different Ages : The Social Context Matters

Helliwell, John F. - 2018

This paper uses a variety of individual-level survey data from several countries to test for interactions between subjective well-being at different ages and variables measuring the nature and quality of the social context at work, at home, and in the community. While earlier studies have found...

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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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Dynamic Effects of Co-Ethnic Networks on Immigrants' Economic Success

Battisti, Michele - 2016

immigrants in Germany. Applying panel analysis with a large set of fixed effects and controls, we isolate the association between …

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Scared Straight? Threat and Assimilation of Refugees in Germany

Jaschke, Philipp; Sardoschau, Sulin; Tabellini, Marco - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

This paper studies the effects of threat on convergence to local culture and economic assimilation of refugees, exploiting plausibly exogenous variation in their allocation across German regions between 2013 and 2016. We combine novel survey data on cultural preferences and economic outcomes of...

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Unhappiness and age

Blanchflower, David G. - 2020

I examine the relationship between unhappiness and age using data from six well-being data files on nearly ten million respondents across forty European countries and the United States. I use fifteen different individual characterizations of unhappiness including despair; anxiety; loneliness;...

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