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Religiosity, smoking and other addictive behaviors

Roman, Monica; Zimmermann, Klaus F.; Plopeanu, … - 2021

While under communism, identity-providing religion was suppressed, religiosity is strong today even among the youth in …

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The Arab Spring and the employability of youth : early evidence from Egypt

Selwaness, Irene; Roushdy, Rania - 2017

This paper investigates the school-to-work transition of young people from subsequent graduation cohorts between 2005 and 2012 in Egypt. The analysis compares the early employment outcomes of those who left school after the January 25th 2011 revolution to that of those who graduated before 2011....

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Financial education for youth : a randomized evaluation in Uruguay

Borraz, Fernando; Caro, Ana; Caño-Guiral, Maira; Roa, … - 2021

. Our results shed light on the importance of economic and financial education for the youth in developing countries. …

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Religiosity, smoking and other risky behaviors

Roman, Monica; Zimmermann, Klaus F.; Plopeanu, … - 2022

While under communism the identity-providing religion was suppressed, religiosity is strong today even among the youth …

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The parental home as labor market insurance for young Greeks during the crisis

Christopoulou, Rebekka; Pantalidou, Maria - 2017

. Specifically, we test the relationship between youth labor outcomes and parental co-residence, whether this relationship has become … refuge both for jobless youth and for those in poorly paid, insecure jobs, and this role has intensified during the crisis …

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Excluded generation : the growing challenges of labor market insertion for Egyptian youth

Asʿad, Rāǧī; Krafft, Caroline - 2017

Youth in Egypt hold rising aspirations for their adult lives, yet face an increasingly uncertain and protracted … time in Egypt and how the nature of youth transitions relates to gender and social class. We demonstrate that youth today …. Whether youth successfully make transitions to formal jobs, embark on such transitions and fail, or pursue a traditional route …

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Labor market and institutional drivers of youth irregular migration : evidence from the MENA Region

Dibeh, Ghassan; Fakih, Ali; Marrouch, Walid - 2018

decision to migrate irregularly amongst the youth in the MENA region and that the quality of institutions matters. In addition …

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Climate shocks and teenage fertility

Dessy, Sylvain Eloi; Marchetta, Francesca; Pongou, Roland; … - 2020

In communities highly dependent on rainfed agriculture for their livelihoods, the common occurrence of climatic shocks can lower the marginal cost of a child and raise fertility. We test this hypothesis using longitudinal data from Madagascar. Exploiting exogenous within-district year-to-year...

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Genetic risks, adolescent health and schooling attainment

Amin, Vikesh; Behrman, Jere R.; Fletcher, Jason; … - 2020

We provide new evidence on the effect of adolescent health behaviors/outcomes (obesity, depression, smoking, and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD)) on schooling attainment using the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent to Adult Health. We take two different approaches to deal...

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Books or babies? : the incapacitation effect of schooling on minority women

Adamecz-Völgyi, Anna; Scharle, Ágota - 2020

This paper examines the effects of an increase in the compulsory school leaving age on the teenage fertility of Roma women, a disadvantaged ethnic minority in Hungary. We use a regression discontinuity design identification strategy and show that the reform decreased the probability of teenage...

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