There are 420 million young people in Africa today. Understanding how youth search for jobs and what affects their ability to find good jobs is of paramount importance. We do so using a field experiment tracking young job seekers for six years in Uganda's main cities. We examine how two standard...

We propose a model to study when an intermediate action can serve as a "stepping stone" that enables the elimination of a harmful norm. While the intermediate action may facilitate the first "step", it may also become a new norm. We derive intuitive conditions for stepping stones, which depend...