This study investigates whether exposure to peer depression in adolescence affects own depression in adulthood. We find … followed into adulthood. An increase of one standard deviation of the share of own-gender peers (schoolmates) who are depressed …

gender differences in the timing of puberty can explain gender differences in achievement. We use British cohort data that … with a slower rate of cognitive skill growth during adolescence. This disadvantage in cognitive development is also … boys is however too small to explain more than a fraction of the gender gap in educational outcomes. Furthermore, we find …

transition from adolescence to adulthood, we estimate a multinomial logit model to capture the effect of the timing of first … employment for young women and that women whose first birth occurs during adolescence largely select into low-quality informal …

deprivation only during adolescence were equally likely to become a teenage parent and were more likely to drop out of school …

often result in clinic closures, limiting abortion access. We study how women's exposure to these laws in adolescence …

-Blinder decomposition technique, this paper contributes to knowledge on gender-gaps in financial literacy (FL) via a study of teenagers … those aged 15-19, 20-24 and 25-29, respectively. Very little of the gap may be explained by gender differences in human … conclusion is that the gap starts young and likely derives from gender stereotype beliefs. …

We study how children's socio-emotional skills and well-being in adolescence are affected by an increase in the …

' absence. Our results suggest that the presence of a father figure during adolescence is likely to have protective effects …, particularly for males, in both adolescence and young adulthood. …