We study the determinants of youth crime using a dynamic discrete choice model of crime and education. We allow past … education and criminal activities to affect current crime and educational decisions. We take advantage of a rich panel dataset … cognitive and social/emotional skills that feeds into the crime and education model. This allows us to separately identify the …

. Furthermore, effects are heterogeneous across education groups: teen motherhood has larger negative effects on high school … completion and years of schooling among poor and low-education households. Our results imply that policies aimed at reducing … early childbearing will have important short-term effects on young women's education outcomes. …

skill-biased literature, our results surprisingly show that the Italian "best of youth", i.e. the best workers of the most …

afterwards. Beyond the well documented asymmetries across countries, we uncover different responses of adult and youth … unemployment rates. While adult unemployment is more prone to experience structural breaks, youth unemployment is more sensitive to … specifically targeted to youth unemployed in bad times. One important implication of our findings is that generic labour market …

policy should respond with measures, programmes and initiatives targeted at this population group. Next to broader labour … market and economic measures, which ultimately also benefit younger people, youth-targeted measures are needed given the … actual policy responses in the area of youth employment during the COVID-19 crisis in 20 selected countries. If such measures …