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Unprecedented numbers of unaccompanied asylum-seeking children have arrived in Europe over the last decade, and young Afghans account for the highest proportion of unaccompanied asylum-seeking children across the UK. Despite research exploring the experiences of child refugees and asylum...
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intergenerational mobility. We use data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth to analyse how educational and income mobility …
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data triangulation to analyze a renowned Hong Kong’s SE that focuses on youth empowerment. This study contributes to the SE … notion of agency, and power sharing between youths and adults as important elements of youth empowerment in SE. Finally, we …
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Though social protection in sub-Saharan Africa is intensive to alleviate food insecurity of the vulnerable group such as women, its impact on the food security status of female-headed rural households has not been well documented. Accordingly, the present study aims to evaluate the effect of the...
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Using a novel laboratory experiment I find that hunger increases monetary impatience. This effect is larger when monetary rewards are immediate, which shows that present bias is a visceral response and can help explain why the poor tend to make more shortsighted economic decisions. Given...
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messages and financial decisions among low-income youth in Colombia. Youth accountholders are randomly assigned to one of four …-four semimonthly reminders and iv) control. After twelve months, account balances of youth assigned to receive monthly and semimonthly … effects of reminders last even eight months after youth stop receiving messages, the latest we can observe …
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We use an incentivized experiment to measure the risk and time preferences of truant adolescents and their parents. We find that adolescent preferences do not predict school attendance and that a unique police-school partnership program targeting school absences was most effective in reducing...
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We evaluate the impact on youth crime of a welfare reform that tightened activation requirements for social assistance … lowered social assistance take-up we uncover no indication that loss of income support pushed youth into crime. …
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We use an incentivized experiment to measure the risk and time preferences of truant adolescents and their parents. We find that adolescent preferences do not predict school attendance and that a unique police-school partnership program targeting school absences was most effective in reducing...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011776046