Demand-Driven Youth Training Programs: Experimental Evidence from Mongolia

A Comparison of Youth-driven and Adult-driven Youth Programs: Balancing Inputs from Youth and Adults

This article examines the unfolding of experiences in youth programs that differed in the degree of youth and adult influence over program activities. In-depth qualitative data were obtained over a threeto four-month cycle of activities in two “youth-driven” and two “adult-driven” programs for high-school–aged youth. All had been identified as high quality, and in all of the programs, the adult...

Demand-driven Search in Functional Logic Programs

In this paper we discuss the advantage of lazy functional logic languages to solve search problems. We show that the lazy evaluation strategy of such languages can be easily exploited to implement a solver that explores only the dynamically demanded parts of the search space. In contrast to pure logic programming, the use of nondeterministic functions enables a modular and simple implementation...

Training programs and implementation process of positive youth development programs.

Rethinking Youth Employment Programs: Evidence from Two Summer Jobs Experiments

Every day, acts of violence injure over 6,000 people in the U.S. Despite decades of social science arguing that joblessness among disadvantaged youth is a key cause of violent offending, programs to remedy youth unemployment do not consistently reduce delinquency. This study tests whether summer jobs, which shift focus from remediation to prevention, can reduce crime. In a randomized controlled...

Demand-driven evidence network in Europe.

Recent interest in “evidence-based policy-making” is a response to the perception that governments need to improve the quality of their decisionmaking in view of rapid changes and scarce resources.1 Creating better policies means using the best available evidence and not merely that which is the most easily accessible. In a world of information overload, there is a large amount of information t...