question of gender and youth deprivation in the context of the Moroccan labor market. They find that the reference group (the …

This paper addresses the underlying causes of problems and risks faced by poor and excluded youth of 10-24 years of age …. The authors develop a survey instrument that addresses poverty in a broad sense, including hunger, early pregnancy and … on intergenerational transfer of risks that are considered to induce poverty. They document findings based on the survey …

This paper examines the phenomena of high rates of youth that are out of school and out of work in Latin America. The … possibility of scarring effects, and finds that higher shares of out of school and out of work youth at ages 15–20 years are … prospects, the analysis finds scarring effects only for females, with greater out of school and out of work youth shares being …

World Bank’s Kenya Youth Empowerment Project. The program provided three months of classroom-based technical training …

youth in Sierra Leone at the onset of the Ebola crisis. The intervention provided (i) technical skills training, plus on … resilience to the Ebola shock. The effects on cognitive and noncognitive skills were positive and heterogeneous. Youth with … greater initial ability experienced more positive labor market and entrepreneurship investment impacts. Youth with less …

Crime rates in Papua New Guinea's capital city of Port Moresby are among the highest in the world. Few youth work, and … Urban Youth Employment Project. The project offers out-of-school and out-of-work youth two months of public works employment … completion. The control group consists of observably similar youth living in areas not served by the program. Project …

effective tool to attain greater inclusion of youth in financial services, and brings out important issues of the …

driving the time use decisions and restrictions faced by Mexican youth. The results of the analysis imply that: (i) once youth …