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We analyze the effect of having a child in adolescence on high school completion, educational attainment, and college enrollment in a developing country setting using nine repeated rounds of Chilean household surveys that span the 1990-2009 period. We control for selection bias and household...
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skill-biased literature, our results surprisingly show that the Italian "best of youth", i.e. the best workers of the most …
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afterwards. Beyond the well documented asymmetries across countries, we uncover different responses of adult and youth … unemployment rates. While adult unemployment is more prone to experience structural breaks, youth unemployment is more sensitive to … specifically targeted to youth unemployed in bad times. One important implication of our findings is that generic labour market …
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, Egypt, Algeria, Lebanon, Morocco, and Tunisia. The paper uses data extracted from the SAHWA Youth Survey (2016) and runs a …
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Many rights are conferred on Dutch youth at ages 16 and 18. Using national register data for all reported …
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We present experimental evidence on the effects of four U.S. reemployment programs for youth Unemployment Insurance (UI … that policymakers should require job counseling for youth UI recipients during recessions. …
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This paper studies the determinants of youth emigration decisions, which is considered to be one of the main causes of … people aged 15 to 29 from the year 2016. The aim of the paper is to identify the profile of youth's propensity to emigrate … from Lebanon. The empirical results indicate that youth from non-wealthy backgrounds living in smaller dwellings have a …
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We examine the effects of free-of-charge availability of emergency contraception on contraceptive behaviour in Chile. Using a survey of individuals 15 to 29, we exploit variation in availability at the municipality level as a consequence of legal and judicial decisions in the late 2000s. We find...
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decision to migrate irregularly amongst the youth in the MENA region and that the quality of institutions matters. In addition …
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developing countries. Few studies document the patterns and determinants of internal youth migration in sub-Saharan Africa … childhood socioeconomic determinants in later youth migration decisions to rural and urban areas. RESULTS: We find that young … areas for both men and women. CONTRIBUTION: We contribute to the sparse literature on internal youth migration in developing …
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