We estimate the contemporaneous effect of education on adolescent crime by exploiting the variation in crime rates between different cohorts and at different ages that followed a reform that raised the school-leaving age in Italy. A 1 percentage-point increase of the enrollment rate reduces...

Was geschieht mit Menschen, denen professionell geholfen wird? Mit diesem Fokus zielt der Band auf den Kern institutioneller Hilfeleistungen: ihre Folgen für die AdressatInnen. Zugrunde gelegt wird ein komplexer Begriff von Folgen. Sie verweisen auf Deutungs- und Handlungsmuster,...

This paper shows that a youth empowerment program in Bolivia reduces the prevalence of violence against girls during the COVID-19 lockdown. The program offers training in soft skills and technical skills, sex education, mentoring, and job-finding assistance. To measure the effects of the...