Can Employment Reduce Lawlessness and Rebellion? A Field Experiment with High-Risk Youth in a Fragile State

2014 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christopher Blattman ◽  
Jeannie Annan
Keyword(s):  
High Risk ◽  
Field Experiment ◽  
Fragile State ◽  
High Risk Youth

scholarly journals Can Employment Reduce Lawlessness and Rebellion? A Field Experiment with High-Risk Men in a Fragile State

2016 ◽  
Vol 110 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-17 ◽  
Author(s):  
CHRISTOPHER BLATTMAN ◽  
JEANNIE ANNAN
Keyword(s):  
High Risk ◽  
Field Experiment ◽  
Labor Supply ◽  
Work Hours ◽  
Cash Transfer ◽  
Fragile State ◽  
Rubber Plantations ◽  
Employment Programs

States and aid agencies use employment programs to rehabilitate high-risk men in the belief that peaceful work opportunities will deter them from crime and violence. Rigorous evidence is rare. We experimentally evaluate a program of agricultural training, capital inputs, and counseling for Liberian ex-fighters who were illegally mining or occupying rubber plantations. Fourteen months after the program ended, men who accepted the program offer increased their farm employment and profits, and shifted work hours away from illicit activities. Men also reduced interest in mercenary work in a nearby war. Finally, some men did not receive their capital inputs but expected a future cash transfer instead, and they reduced illicit and mercenary activities most of all. The evidence suggests that illicit and mercenary labor supply responds to small changes in returns to peaceful work, especially future and ongoing incentives. But the impacts of training alone, without capital, appear to be low.

scholarly journals Can employment reduce lawlessness and rebellion? A field experiment with high-risk men in a fragile state

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christopher Blattman ◽  
Richard Peck ◽  
Patryk Perkowski ◽  
Keesler Welch ◽  
Shammi Quddus
Keyword(s):  
High Risk ◽  
Field Experiment ◽  
Fragile State

scholarly journals Can employment reduce lawlessness and rebellion? A field experiment with high-risk men in a fragile state

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christopher Blattman ◽  
Richard Peck ◽  
Patryk Perkowski ◽  
Keesler Welch ◽  
Shammi Quddus
Keyword(s):  
High Risk ◽  
Field Experiment ◽  
Fragile State

High-Risk Youth Behaviors Decreasing Over Time

2008 ◽  
Vol 42 (7) ◽  
pp. 26-27
Author(s):  
MARY ELLEN SCHNEIDER
Keyword(s):  
High Risk ◽  
High Risk Youth ◽  
Over Time ◽  
Youth Behaviors

1363-P: Cyber School: A Marker of High-Risk Youth with Diabetes?

Diabetes ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 68 (Supplement 1) ◽  
pp. 1363-P
Author(s):  
CHRISTINE MARCH ◽  
LINDA M. SIMINERIO ◽  
ELIZABETH MILLER ◽  
INGRID LIBMAN
Keyword(s):  
High Risk ◽  
Cyber School ◽  
High Risk Youth
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