-year school-based intervention in Haryana, India, that engaged adolescents in classroom discussions about gender equality. Using a … randomized controlled trial, we find that the intervention increased adolescents' support for gender equality by 0.25 standard …

attractiveness of migration for educated children. Consistent with the model, in response to the treatment we find declines in school … the family farm or provide care and assistance around the house). However, children themselves may prefer to migrate when … limit investments in some children's education so that they will not find it optimal to migrate when they reach maturity …

There is growing concern that it is too difficult or costly to substantially improve the academic skills of children … who are behind in school once they reach adolescence. But perhaps what we have tried in the past relies on the wrong … simplifying the teaching task: individualized, intensive, in-school tutoring. A key innovation by the non-profit we study (Saga …

coeducational to single-sex. I exploit these conversions to identify the causal effect of single-sex schooling holding other school … national exams and are four percentage points more likely to complete secondary school. There are also important non …

Children from low-income families face persistent barriers to accessing high-quality health care services. Previous … research studies have examined the importance of expanding children's health insurance coverage, but there is little prior …. We study how the significant expansion of school-based health centers (SBHCs) in the United States since the early 1990's …

interventions to reduce crime and dropout by changing the decision-making of economically disadvantaged youth. We study a program … called Becoming a Man (BAM), developed by the non-profit Youth Guidance, in two RCTs implemented in 2009-10 and 2013- 15. In … violent-crime arrests by 45-50%, improved school engagement, and in the first study where we have follow-up data, increased …

We ask whether failing one or more of the state-mandated high-school exit examinations affects whether students … graduate from high school. Using a new multi-dimensional regression-discontinuity approach, we examine simultaneously scores on …

This study explores the effect of in-person schooling on youth suicide. We document three key findings. First, using … and the school calendar. We show that suicides among 12-to-18-year-olds are highest during months of the school year and … experience increases in teen suicides in August, while areas with schools starting in September don't see youth suicides rise …

enrollment, work and healthcare use of young children and adolescents in Vietnam. To do so, we exploit variation in tariff … increased for both children and adolescents. We find evidence that healthcare utilization decreased for both children and …We examine how export expansion induced by the U.S-Vietnam Bilateral Trade Agreement (BTA) affected migration, school …

has statistically important impacts on skinfold growth among children and adolescents. Diets between obese and non …In this paper empirical evidence is presented on the determinants of obesity in youth in the U.S., with particular …-obese youth, however, do not differ substantially. Evidence that youth with "fatter parents" are able to produce more skin-fold or …