-school program that offered disadvantaged high-school youth: mentoring, educational services, and financial rewards to attend program …

This paper reviews recent studies on the effectiveness of services and incentives offered to disadvantaged youth. We …-risk youth ; resilience ; deviancy training ; deterrence ; primary- and high-school ; post-secondary education ; remedial …

Can cash transfers promote employment and reduce poverty in rural Africa? Will lower youth unemployment and poverty … monitoring and accountability, most youth invest the transfer in vocational skills and tools. Second, the economic impacts of the … poor access to credit is a major reason youth cannot start these vocations in the absence of aid. Much of the heterogeneity …

Improving the long-term life outcomes of disadvantaged youth remains a top policy priority in the United States … results from a large randomized controlled trial of an intervention for disadvantaged male youth grades 7-10 from high … behavioral therapy (CBT). We randomly assigned 2,740 youth to programming or to a control group; about half those offered …

research, policy and programming have historically focused on children and adults, there is a growing emphasis on youth as both … to support its incorporating human rights into youth violence programming and policy dialogues in Mexico and South Africa … project. This aims to encourage policy dialogue on youth and violence with the South African government and other stakeholders …

Improving the long-term life outcomes of disadvantaged youth remains a top policy priority in the United States … results from a large randomized controlled trial of an intervention for disadvantaged male youth grades 7-10 from high … behavioral therapy (CBT). We randomly assigned 2,740 youth to programming or to a control group; about half those offered …

We investigate the causal effects of a large-scale program targeted at youth at-risk on formal employment and welfare …