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What Makes a Young Entrepreneur?
Blanchflower, David G.; Oswald, Andrew J. - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007
This paper documents some of the patterns in modern microeconomic data on youngpeople´s employment, attitudes and entrepreneurial behaviour. Among other sources, thepaper uses the Eurobarometer Surveys; the Labour Force Surveys from Canada and theCurrent Population Survey in the United States...
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012766736
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Social Media Extensive Use and Emotional and Behavioural Outcomes in Adolescence : Evidence from British Longitudinal Data
McNamee, Paul - 2019
We investigate the relationship between social media use and emotional and behavioural outcomes in adolescence using data from a large and detailed longitudinal study of teenagers from the UK. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first study in economics to analyse the effect of social...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012857701
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The Effect of Parental Educational Expectations on Adolescent Subjective Well-Being and the Moderating Role of Perceived Academic Pressure : Longitudinal Evidence for China
Lu, Haiyang - 2019
Although the strong positive correlation between parental educational expectations (PEE) and child academic achievement is widely documented, little is known about PEE's effects on child psychological outcomes and the mechanisms through which it may work. Hence, in this paper, using nationally...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012857702
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Marriage Equality Laws and Youth Mental Health
Anderson, D. Mark - 2019
-identifying youths. Using data from the State Youth Risk Behavior Surveys for the period 1999-2017, we explore the relationship between …
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