levels of illegal trafficking of girls and abnormal child sex ratios in favor of boys. In this paper we examine if a skewed … states from 1980-2011, we find that 100 unit increase in child sex ratio is associated with 0.635% increase in illegal … state. We find that association between child sex ratio and illegal trafficking of girls is stronger and larger in magnitude …

A recent surge in child migration to the U.S. from Honduras, El Salvador, and Guatemala has occurred in the context of … and child migration to the United States using novel, individual-level, anonymized data on all 178,825 U.S. apprehensions … of unaccompanied child migrants from these countries between 2011 and 2016. It finds that one additional homicide per …

countries (namely Belgium, Italy, the Netherlands, Norway, Portugal and Spain compared with Latvia, Lithuania, the Czech …, and very large in Portugal, Latvia, Lithuania and Slovakia. Our findings support the hypothesis of a negative relationship …

small remote EU regions located within Scotland, Greece and Latvia. Two migration scenarios are assessed. In the first …

To mitigate the impact of the 2008-2010 global financial crisis on vulnerable households, the Government of Latvia … dearth of income-generating opportunities in Latvia; thus the program provided temporary employment opportunities and helped … the unemployed mitigate the impact of the crisis. However, relative to the depth of the crisis in Latvia, the Workplaces …

data, to document the reform of teacher compensation and school network implemented in Latvia amidst the economic crisis of …

This paper analyzes how the labor market adjusts to the Great Recession. To this aim, we use the data for Latvia, a …

Latvia. The programme is part of the Youth Guarantee scheme for the period 2014-2020, the largest action launched by the …

of the child does not matter, but that children with fewer siblings, and firstborn children, are more strongly influenced …