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The impact of adolescent motherhood on education in Chile
Berthelon, Matias; Kruger, Diana I. - 2014
We analyze the effect of having a child in adolescence on high school completion, educational attainment, and college enrollment in a developing country setting using nine repeated rounds of Chilean household surveys that span the 1990-2009 period. We control for selection bias and household...
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Use of ICTs : what effect on the quality of youth employment in Cameroon?
Meka’a, Cosmas Bernard; Njiepue Nouffeussie, Astride … - 2023
quality of youth employment in Cameroon. The study uses data from the Cameroonian Household Survey (CHS 4) carried out by the …
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Youth aspirations and the reality of jobs in Africa
Lorenceau, Adrien - 2021
The gap between youth aspirations and the reality of the labour markets in Africa is large. Career aspirations of young … through a smooth school to work transition. Evidence from ten African countries shows that what youth in these countries value … are the least attractive for young Africans. Policies can help address the misalignment between youth employment …
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Cities of youth : post-millennial cases of mobility and sociality
Hansen, Karen Tranberg - 2014
Lusaka, Zambia, to analyse pathways for, and challenges to, greater social mobility for youth against the background of … economic, political, and spatial processes that are affecting urban livelihoods in the region, facilitating or hindering youth …
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Enhancing Youth Skills and Economic Opportunities to Reduce Teenage Pregnancy in Colombia
Gimenez, Lea; Muller, Miriam; Rounseville, Megan Zella; … - 2015
teenage pregnancy; outlines the Colombian country context with regard to gender equality and youth labor market outcomes … and programs related to teenage pregnancy prevention (CONPES 147) and youth labor (CONPES 173) …The Government of Colombia (GoC) has identified teenage pregnancy as a priority issue. The current strategic framework …
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The sexual behaviour of young people
Schofield, Michael George - 1965
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Sexual and Romantic Relationships in Young Adulthood
Tillman, Kathryn; Brewster, Karin L.; Holway, … - 2021
Sociological research has long recognized the important role that intimate relationships play in young people's lives. In recent decades, relationship formation patterns and relationship trajectories during the early years of adulthood have become increasingly diverse and complex. In recognition...
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Young adult sexuality in the digital age
Kalish, Rachel (ed.) - 2020
""This book explores the understanding of the combination of technology and sexual decision making for young adults. It also examines the role of technology in sexual identity formation, sexual communication, relationship formation and dissolution, and sexual learning and online sexual...
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Distributional Effects of Welfare Reform for Young Adults : An Unconditional Quantile Regression Approach
Hernaes, Oeystein - 2018
The paper evaluates the distributional effects on earnings and income of requiring young welfare recipients to fulfill conditions related to work and activation. It exploits within-social insurance office variation in policy arising from a geographically staggered reform in Norway. The reform...
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Productive Employment and Empowering Education : An Agenda for India's Youth
Jha, Raghbendra - 2014
Until very recently and despite human capital's pre-eminent and empirically established contribution to economic growth, Indian policymakers planning for economic development concentrated largely on issues of capital, labour and, to a lesser extent, technology. This paper argues that India's...
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