Nationally representative studies consistently report significant gender and racial differences in youth smoking rates …: differences in youth responsiveness to changes in price or tobacco control policies. Using data from the 1992-1994 Monitoring the … protection laws and restrictions on youth access …

Youth unemployment in Latin America is exceptionally high, as much as 50% among the poor. Vocational training may be … the best chance to help unemployed young people at the bottom of the income distribution. This paper evaluates the impact … of a randomized training program for disadvantaged youth introduced in Colombia in 2005 on the employment and earnings of …

has become an intrinsic part of the youth unemployment and poverty problem, rather than deviant behavior on the margin …

The authors begin with the hypothesis that parental contacts play a major role in finding jobs for youth. This … hypothesis is tested with a model of youth employment that includes characteristics of other family members in addition to a …'s ability to assist the youth in finding a job, including occupation, industry and education. The effects of such variables are …

This study presents a time series analysis of the youth unemployment problem stressing the cohort overcrowding effect … problem. First, reduced form unemployment equations are estimated for the disaggregated youth groups. The results indicate … that secular swings in female and white youth unemployment rates do track well with the cohort imbalance hypothesis …

's predicted wage rate rather than its observed income doubles the response of tenure choice to the price of owning relative to …

We examine changes in the characteristics of American youth between the late 1970s and the late 1990s, with a focus on … are related to labor market success, including race, gender, parental background, education, test scores, and variables …