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Are you (not) expecting? : the unforeseen benefits of job training on teenage pregnancy
Novella, Rafael; Ripani, Laura - 2015
Teenage pregnancy in the Dominican Republic represents a persistent development challenge. This paper uses data from a … randomized impact evaluation of the youth training program Juventud y Empleo, which includes soft-skills training, to examine its … impact on teenage pregnancy. We find that the program reduces the probability of teenage pregnancy by 8 percentage points …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011472370
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Experimental evidence on the long-term impacts of a youth training program
Ibarrarán, Pablo; Kluve, Jochen; Ripani, Laura; Shady, … - 2015
This paper presents the results of a randomized controlled trial on the long-term impacts of a youth training program … trajectories of young people - and, to the best of our knowledge, is the first experimental long-term evaluation of a youth …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011288535
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Experimental evidence on the long term impacts of a youth training program
Ibarrarán, Pablo; Kluve, Jochen; Ripani, Laura; Shady, … - 2015
This paper presents the results of a randomized controlled trial on the long-term impacts of a youth training program … trajectories of young people – and, to the best of our knowledge, is the first experimental long-term evaluation of a youth …Dieses Papier untersucht die langfristigen Arbeitsmarkteffekte einer Bildungsmaßnahme für benachteiligte Jugendliche …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011308588
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Experimental evidence on the long term impacts of a youth training program
Ibarrarán, Pablo; Kluve, Jochen; Ripani, Laura; Rosas … - 2015
This paper presents the results of a randomized controlled trial on the long-term impacts of a youth training program … trajectories of young people - and, it is one of the first experimental long-term evaluation of a youth training program outside …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011473421
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Life skills, employability and training for disadvantaged youth : evidence from a randomized evaluation design
Ibarrarán, Pablo; Ripani, Laura; Taboada, Bibiana; … - In: IZA journal of labor & development 3 (2014), pp. 1-24
This paper presents an impact evaluation of a revamped version of the Dominican Republic’s youth training program … youth behavior and life style, expectations about the future and socio-emotional skills. In terms of labor market outcomes …-labor market outcomes, the program reduces teenage pregnancy by five percentage points in the treatment group (about 45 percent …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010389562
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Psychosocial competencies and risky behaviours in Peru
Favara, Marta; Sanchez, Alan - In: IZA journal of labor & development 6 (2017) 3, pp. 1-40
We use a unique longitudinal dataset from Peru to investigate the relationship between psychosocial competencies related to the concepts of self-esteem, self-efficacy, and aspirations, and a number of risky behaviours at a crucial transition period between adolescence and early adulthood. First...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011655852
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Are you (not) expecting? The unforeseen benefits of job training on teenage pregnancy
Novella, Rafael; Ripani, Laura - In: IZA Journal of Labor & Development 5 (2016) 19, pp. 1-18
Teenage pregnancy in the Dominican Republic represents a persistent development challenge. This paper uses data from a … randomized impact evaluation of the youth training program Juventud y Empleo, which includes soft skills training, to examine its … impact on teenage pregnancy. We find that the program reduces the probability of teenage pregnancy by 8 percentage points …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011725544
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Are You (Not) Expecting? The Unforeseen Benefits of Job Training on Teenage Pregnancy
Novella, Rafael; Ripani, Laura - 2015
Teenage pregnancy in the Dominican Republic represents a persistent development challenge. This paper uses data from a … randomized impact evaluation of the youth training program Juventud y Empleo, which includes soft-skills training, to examine its … impact on teenage pregnancy. We find that the program reduces the probability of teenage pregnancy by 8 percentage points …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011535750
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Life skills, employability and training for disadvantaged youth : evidence from a randomized evaluation design
Ibarrarán, Pablo; Ripani, Laura; Taboada, Bibiana; … - 2012
This paper presents an impact evaluation of a revamped version of the Dominican youth training program Juventud y … Empleo. The paper analyzes the impact of the program on traditional labor market outcomes and on outcomes related to youth … outcomes, the program reduces teenage pregnancy by five percentage points in the treatment group (about 45 percent), which is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009548065
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Life Skills, Employability and Training for Disadvantaged Youth : Evidence from a Randomized Evaluation Design
Ibarraran, Pablo - 2012
This paper presents an impact evaluation of a revamped version of the Dominican youth training program Juventud y … Empleo. The paper analyzes the impact of the program on traditional labor market outcomes and on outcomes related to youth … outcomes, the program reduces teenage pregnancy by five percentage points in the treatment group (about 45 percent), which is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013104951