Jobs are the primary policy concern of policymakers in many countries. The 2007–2008
global financial crisis, rising demographic pressures, high unemployment rates, and …

Bringing young people into productive work is a key labor market challenge in both
developing and developed economies, and a multitude of labor market interventions have …

Interventions to improve the labour market outcomes of youth: A systematic review of training,
entrepreneurship promotion, employment services and subsidized employment …

The present chapter promotes PYD scholarship in Latin America by testing the 7Cs model of
competence, confidence, character, caring, connection, contribution and creativity in …

A review of rigorous evaluations of interventions that seek to empower women economically
shows that the same class of interventions has significantly different outcomes depending on …

Educators believe that they are adequately preparing youth for the labor market while at the
same time employers lament the students' lack of skills. A possible source of the mismatch in …

Purpose Positive youth development (PYD) has served as a framework for youth programs
in high-income countries since the 1990s and has demonstrated broad behavioral health …

Do high search costs affect the labour market outcomes of jobseekers living far away from
jobs? I randomly assign transport subsidies to unemployed youth in urban Ethiopia. Treated …

This article reviews the empirical literature about gender and productive uses of energy,
focusing on electricity, to answer three research questions: do men and women obtain …

We evaluate the long-term impacts of a randomized Colombian training and job placement
program. Following the large short-term effects, we now find that the program effects persist …