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From Shame to Game in One Hundred Years : An Economic Model of the Rise in Premarital Sex and its De-Stigmatization
Fernández-Villaverde, Jesús - 2010
Societies socialize children about many things, including sex. Socialization is costly. It uses scarce resources, such as time and effort. Parents weigh the marginal gains from socialization against its costs. Those at the lower end of the socioeconomic scale indoctrinate their daughters less...
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Measuring the Child Penalty Early in a Career : The Case of Young Adults in France
Bazen, Stephen; xavier, joutard; Périvier, Hélène - 2022
event study approach, this paper contributes to the literature by examining the child penalty in France not only in terms of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014084074
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Putting Structure on the Rd Design : Social Transfers and Youth Inactivity in France
Bargain, Olivier - 2013
25 years of age are not eligible for social assistance in France. The behavioral model is identified by the discontinuity …
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Close Neighbours Matter : Neighbourhood Effects on Early Performance at School
Goux, Dominique; Maurin, Eric - 2021
considerably larger than those which matter for outcomes (i.e. close neighbours). Several institutional features of France enable …
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The Oral Contraceptive Pill and Adolescents' Mental Health
Costa-Ramón, Ana; Daysal, N. Meltem; … - 2023
What is the impact of the oral contraceptive pill on the mental health of adolescent girls? Using administrative data from Denmark and exploiting the variation in the timing of pill initiation in an event study design, we find that the likelihood of a depression diagnosis and antidepressant use...
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Long-Term Effects of Hiring Subsidies for Low-Educated Unemployed Youths
Albanese, Andrea; Cockx, Bart; Dejemeppe, Muriel - 2023
We use a regression discontinuity design and difference-in-differences estimators to estimate the impact of a one-shot hiring subsidy for low-educated unemployed youths during the Great Recession recovery in Belgium. The subsidy increases job-finding in the private sector by 10 percentage points...
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Neighbourhood Gangs, Crime Spillovers, and Teenage Motherhood
Dustmann, Christian; Mertz, Mikkel; Okatenko, Anna - 2023
Using an identification strategy based on random assignment of refugees to different municipalities in Denmark between 1986 and 1998, we find strong evidence that gang crime rates in the neighbourhood at assignment increase the probability of boys to commit crimes before the age of 19, and that...
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Migrant Opportunity and the Educational Attainment of Youth in Rural China
de Brauw, Alan - 2012
In this paper, we investigate how reductions of barriers to migration affect the decision of middle school graduates to attend high school in rural China. Change in the cost of migration is identified using exogenous variation across counties in the timing of national identity card distribution,...
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Taking Chances : The Effect of Growing Up on Welfare on the Risky Behavior of Young People
Cobb-Clark, Deborah A. - 2011
We analyze the effect of growing up on welfare on young people's involvement in a variety of social and health risks. Young people in welfare families are much more likely to take both social and health risks. Much of the apparent link between family welfare history and risk taking disappears,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012756171
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Employment and Education Policy for Young People in the EU : What Can New Member States Learn from Old Member States?
Pastore, Francesco - 2009
The EU experience with youth unemployment has changed over recent years with the launch and re-launch of the Lisbon … tool to abate youth long term unemployment to the more recent stress on the importance of increasing the human capital … education, to favour smoother school-to-work transitions. Apprenticeships schemes, fiscal incentives to hire the youth …
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