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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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We examine the impact of rainfall variability and cyclones on schooling and work among a cohort of teens and young adults in Madagascar. We estimate a bivariate probit model using a panel survey conducted in 2004 and 2011 in this poor island nation, which is frequently affected by extreme...
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perpetrators, and bias crime penalty enhancements do not distinguish between youth and adult offenders. As a result, little data … exists on youth bias crime, and the consequences of applying bias crime penalty enhancements to adult and youth offenders are … offenders do not apply similarly to youth bias crime offenders. A synthesis of the limited existing data on youth bias crime …
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simply increasing employment - for instance, preventing anti-social behavior such as crime. Indeed, recent evidence shows … that participation in active labor market programs reduces crime among unemployed young men. The existence of such effects …
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This paper examines the impact of Syrian refugees on high school enrollment rates of native youth in Turkey. Syrian … influence native youth's school enrollment likelihood negatively through educational experience. But, at the same time, they can ….7-3.6 percentage points among native youth in refugee-receiving regions. Furthermore, a one-percentage point increase in the refugee …
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This paper examines the impact of Syrian refugees on high school enrollment rates of native youth in Turkey. Syrian … influence native youth's school enrollment likelihood negatively through educational experience. But, at the same time, they can ….7-3.6 percentage points among native youth in refugee-receiving regions. Furthermore, a one-percentage point increase in the refugee …
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The persistently high employment share of the informal sector makes entrepreneurship a necessity for youth in many … profits were concentrated among marginal students induced into entrepreneurship by the program. Youth entrepreneurship …
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