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that runs against the intuition that family ties weaken self-selection. Secondary earners in couples are more weakly self …
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quality of youth employment in Cameroon. The study uses data from the Cameroonian Household Survey (CHS 4) carried out by the …
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This paper uses teacher assessments at age 16 in Norwegian comprehensive schools to measure different types of skills. While we follow the literature and interpret test scores in Mathematics and Science as proxy for cognitive skills, we use a novel measure for another type of skills: Performance...
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counselling and training in the Youth Work Plan (YWP) if a job is not found within three months. The length of the waiting period …
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This study shows that the relative size of the youth bulge matters for how corruption affects the internal stability of … with a relatively large youth population. Using panel data covering the 2002-2012 period for more than 100 countries, we … find a negative interaction effect between the relative size of the youth population and corruption on internal political …
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theoretic framework. Utilizing an RD design, we analyse responses to a nationwide Swedish youth activation program. We find that …
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. The results show that substituting lacking family support by other adults can help disadvantaged children at adolescent …
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Non-family-based institutions for socializing young people may play a vital role in creating close-knit, inclusive … communities. We study the potential for youth camps—integrating rituals, sports, and civics training—to strengthen intergroup … minority, while higher intergroup contact backfires among Hindus but not Muslims. Our findings demonstrate that inclusive youth …
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We study the effect of educational attainment on family formation using regression discontinuity designs generated by … set of results using survey data. These suggest that the positive association between men’s education and family formation …
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accounts for the joint earnings dynamics of siblings and youth community peers. We are the first to decompose the sibling … correlation of permanent earnings into family and community effects allowing for life-cycle dynamics; finding that family is the …
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