controlling for youth background characteristics, first- and second-generation immigrant youths have significantly higher …

We provide experimental evidence on the effects of vocational and entrepreneurial training for Malawian youth, in an …

The growing gender gap in educational attainment between men and women has raised concerns that the skill development …. An investigation of adult outcomes for another recent cohort from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth, 1997 … produces a similar pattern of results. We conclude that focusing on gender differences in behavior in school may not lead to …

We empirically test the hypothesis that adolescents' occupational aspirations are more gender-stereotypical if they … live in regions where the societal norm towards gender equality is weaker. For our analysis, we combine rich survey data … describing a sample of 1,434 Swiss adolescents in 8th grade with municipal voting results dealing with gender equality and policy …

gender differences emerge with age and by gender of opponent. Our samples contain 186 children (aged 10–12), 310 teenagers … Daily Double wagering decisions. We identify no noticeable gender differences in our competitive measures throughout all … three samples, but this result changes when considering risk-taking. Although we identify no gender differences in wagering …

gaming by gender and for high income and middle income countries. We use two identification strategies in the spirit of an … quest to close the gender gap in math …

We estimate the relationship between international youth and professional tennis rankings. We find no difference … of professional success is beating older top ranked juniors. Our results reveal stark gender differences. For example …

of a standard deviation in the gender gap in maths from primary to secondary school in the UK, and show that adolescent … development contributes to explain almost two thirds of the widening of the math gender gap during the adolescence years. We also … relationships between adolescent development and the increase in the gender gap in math in secondary school …

I consider the alcohol consumption of opposite-gender peers as explanatory to adolescent sexual intercourse and …