and wages), demonstrating that the incapacitation effect of additional time spent in school is not the sole driver of the …

This paper is the first to use a randomized trial in the US to analyze the short- and long-term impacts of an after-school … program that offered disadvantaged high-school youth: mentoring, educational services, and financial rewards to attend program … activities, complete high-school and enroll in post-secondary education on youths' engagement in risky behaviors, such as …

behaviors detrimental. Exploiting control group's self-reported drug use while in school, we evaluate whether the program worked …-risk youths as it managed to curb their risky behaviors during high-school and, by doing so, it persistently improved high-school …-half of the risk distribution as it increased their engagement in risky behaviors while in high-school. Negative peer effects …

earthquake damage but with and without the policy interventions, I find that a higher high school participation rate reduces …

and wages), demonstrating that the incapacitation effect of additional time spent in school is not the sole driver of the …

earthquake damage but with and without the policy interventions, I find that a higher high school participation rate reduces …

. Stronger reform effects on weekday versus weekend crime, reduced school dropout, and favorable long-run outcomes in terms of …

Using a nationally-representative panel data set of U.S. high school students (AddHealth data) that contains a … not influence other risky or bad behaviors of juveniles such as smoking, drinking and fighting, being expelled from school …