This paper presents an impact evaluation of a revamped version of the Dominican youth training program Juventud y … Empleo. The paper analyzes the impact of the program on traditional labor market outcomes and on outcomes related to youth … outcomes, the program reduces teenage pregnancy by five percentage points in the treatment group (about 45 percent), which is …

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

This paper presents the results of a randomized controlled trial on the long-term impacts of a youth training program … trajectories of young people – and, to the best of our knowledge, is the first experimental long-term evaluation of a youth …

We study the effect of a job training program for low income youth in Cordoba, Argentina. The program included life …

aim of this paper is to study interactions among different types of risk-taking behavior by youth, namely drug use and … teenage pregnancy. We check the impact of factors such as exposure to mass media, the existence of support networks, self …

I examine teenage pregnancy in Ghana, focusing on the role and interplay of Ghanaian and English reading skills, formal … related to teenage pregnancy. Second, however, once Ghanaian and English reading skills are introduced, the association … between educational attainment and teenage pregnancy decreases or disappears altogether. Third, for the girls who have not …