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Effects of Government Initiatives on Youth Crime
Sabatés, Ricardo - 2008
This paper evaluates the impacts on male juvenile burglary conviction rates of two UK government interventions, the Reducing Burglary Initiative and Educational Maintenance Allowances, only the former of which had crime reduction has an explicit objective. Using difference-in-differences...
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Compulsory schooling laws, overcrowding, and youth crime : a quasi-experimental study of Brazilian municipalities
Nishijima, Marislei; Pal, Sarmistha - In: The journal of development studies 59 (2023) 10, pp. 1589-1607
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The impact of comprehensive student support on crime : evidence from the pathways to education program
Lavecchia, Adam; Oreopoulos, Philip; Spencer, Noah - 2024
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Preventing Youth Violence and Dropout : A Randomized Field Experiment
Heller, Sara - 2013
Improving the long-term life outcomes of disadvantaged youth remains a top policy priority in the United States … results from a large randomized controlled trial of an intervention for disadvantaged male youth grades 7-10 from high … behavioral therapy (CBT). We randomly assigned 2,740 youth to programming or to a control group; about half those offered …
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Distributional Effects of Welfare Reform for Young Adults : An Unconditional Quantile Regression Approach
Hernaes, Oeystein - 2018
The paper evaluates the distributional effects on earnings and income of requiring young welfare recipients to fulfill conditions related to work and activation. It exploits within-social insurance office variation in policy arising from a geographically staggered reform in Norway. The reform...
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Literature Review on the Impact of Welfare Policy Design on Children and Youth
Broadway, Barbara - 2020
We review the empirical literature on the causal effects of welfare-to-work policies on the employment of low-income parents and the intergenerational impacts on their children. We focus on welfare policies that change benefit levels, activity requirements, time-limits and inwork benefits. These...
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New trends in the treatment of young offenders
1974
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Catholic schools and bad behavior
Mocan, Naci; Scafidi, Benjamin; Tekin, Erdal - 2002
Although there is a sizeable literature of the effect of private school attendance on academic student outcomes, there is a dearth of studies of the impact of school sector on nonacademic outcomes. Using a rich data set, we analyze the impact of Catholic school attendance on the likelihood that...
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Adolescent biology, poverty, and risk
Males, Mike A.; Shelden, Randall G. - In: Poverty : global perspectives, challenges and issues of …, (pp. 1-39). 2016
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011617496