question of gender and youth deprivation in the context of the Moroccan labor market. They find that the reference group (the …

This paper addresses the underlying causes of problems and risks faced by poor and excluded youth of 10-24 years of age …. The authors develop a survey instrument that addresses poverty in a broad sense, including hunger, early pregnancy and … on intergenerational transfer of risks that are considered to induce poverty. They document findings based on the survey …

Risk and protective factors influence behaviors and outcomes for youth. While risk factors expose youth to risk … mechanisms that insulate youth from negative outcomes. This paper groups youth by risk levels using a cluster analysis … covering youth in four urban areas of Argentina in 2005, youth are clustered by characteristics in relation to family and …

, Brazil, the aim of this paper is to study risk-taking behavior by youth, focusing on drug use and teenage pregnancy. The …

protective and risk factors predisposing youth to positive and negative behaviors. These factors, including poverty, gender …Of the 1.6 million Haitian youth aged 15-24, only 13 percent are content with their lives. More than half of 20-year …-olds have not completed secondary education and nearly half of youth in the labor market are unemployed. This paper investigates …

adulthood. Youth development is difficult to quantify because of the multi-dimensionality of youth behavior. Most monitoring use … a methodology developed by Duke University to measure the well-being of U.S. children and youth. It uses readily …-being of youth in each state over time. …

a higher probability of becoming troubled youth: poverty and residing in rural areas. The analysis also finds that risky …A new literature on the nature of and policies for youth in Latin America is emerging, but there is still very little … known about who are the most vulnerable young people. This paper aims to characterize the heterogeneity in the youth …

migrants around the world. Youth are found to comprise a large share of all migrants, particularly in migration to other … results suggest a high degree of commonality in the youth migrant experience across a number of destination countries. In … particular, developing country youth tend to work in similar occupations all around the world, and are more concentrated in these …

in East Asia and Latin America, youth populations are at or near their peak, and will decline in coming decades. In other … countries, especially in Africa and South Asia, youth populations will continue growing for several decades. From an economic … perspective, absolute numbers may be less important than the growth rate or relative size of youth cohorts. Growth rates and the …