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...

This paper reviews recent studies on the effectiveness of services and incentives offered to disadvantaged youth. We focus our analysis on three types of interventions: mentoring, educational services, and financial rewards. The objective of this article is threefold. First, we explain...

Verlagsinfo: Der Autor untersucht - nach einem Überblick über die rechtlichen Grundlagen - die ökonomischen Wirkungen des geltenden Systems von Ausbildungsförderung und Familienleistungsausgleich. Es zeigt sich, daß aus Sicht der Eltern erhebliche Anreize gegen weiterführende Bildung...

This paper specifies a general set of conditions under which the impacts of a policy can be identified using data generated under a different policy regime. We show that some of the policy impacts can be identified under relatively weak conditions on the data and structure of a model. Based on...