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Is there a link between BMI and adolescents' educational choices and expectations?
Diaz-Serrano, Luis; Stoyanova, Alexandrina P. - 2020
One of the most claimed links in the health and education literature is that education prevents from the risk of overweight, and the negative link between education and BMI is up to now out of questioning. More educated adults tend to have lower body mass index (BMI) and a lower risk of...
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The inheritance of educational inequality among young people in developing countries
Pastore, Francesco; Roccisano, Federica - 2015
This letter provides new evidence on the extent of the inheritance of educational inequality in the eight developing countries (Azerbaijan, China, Egypt, Iran, Kosovo, Mongolia, Nepal, Syria) where the ILO carried out the first wave of School-to-Work Transition survey. We observe different...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010528582
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Why so slow? : the school-to-work transition in Italy
Pastore, Francesco - 2017
with slow economic growth, rather than the supposedly low degree of labor market flexibility explain high (youth … youth long term unemployed, the so-called Good School and the related introduction of work-related learning, the European … Youth Guarantee and the reform of employment services - have been all recently implemented, which are causing a slow …
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Can mentoring alleviate family disadvantage in adolescence? : a field experiment to improve labor-market prospects
Resnjanskij, Sven; Ruhose, Jens; Wiederhold, Simon; … - 2021
We study a mentoring program that aims to improve the labor-market prospects of school- attending adolescents from disadvantaged families by offering them a university-student mentor. Our RCT investigates program effectiveness on three outcome dimensions that are highly predictive of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012431385
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What drives demand for private tutoring in the Middle East and North Africa region? : evidence from a youth survey
Fakih, Ali; Haimoun, Nathir; Sleiman, Anastasia - 2022
, Egypt, Algeria, Lebanon, Morocco, and Tunisia. The paper uses data extracted from the SAHWA Youth Survey (2016) and runs a …
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Excluded generation : the growing challenges of labor market insertion for Egyptian youth
Asʿad, Rāǧī; Krafft, Caroline - 2017
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011731864
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Welfare activation and youth crime
Bratsberg, Bernt; Hernæs, Øystein; Markussen, Simen; … - 2018
We evaluate the impact on youth crime of a welfare reform that tightened activation requirements for social assistance … lowered social assistance take-up we uncover no indication that loss of income support pushed youth into crime. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011893819
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The risk and time preferences of young truants and their parents
Antrobus, Emma; Baranov, Victoria; Cobb-Clark, Deborah A.; … - 2017
We use an incentivized experiment to measure the risk and time preferences of truant adolescents and their parents. We find that adolescent preferences do not predict school attendance and that a unique police-school partnership program targeting school absences was most effective in reducing...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011776046
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The European youth guarantee : labor market context, conditions and opportunities in Italy
Pastore, Francesco - 2015
This essay aims to discuss the conditions for a successful implementation of the European Youth Guarantee in Italy. In …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010498539
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More schooling, less youth crime? : learning from an earthquake in Japan
Aoki, Yu - 2014
This paper aims to identify the causal effect of schooling on youth crime. To identify the causal effect, I use the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010434594