Larrikin youth: Crime and Queensland's Earning or Learning reform

Crime Scene or Event Scene?

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Youth, guns, and violent crime.

Young people are overrepresented as both victims and perpetrators of violence. Indeed, some commentators have suggested that recent cohorts of youth have been composed of "superpredators" who have little regard for human life. The evidence, however, suggests that other factors are responsible for recent increases in youth gun violence. This article analyzes the extent and causes of youth violen...

Understanding and preventing youth crime (summary)

Dynamic Pricing with Model Uncertainty: Learning & Earning

This tutorial focuses on dynamic pricing under model uncertainty: a class of problems whose first instance dates back at least 40 years, is relatively simple in structure, is widely considered fundamental, and has numerous manifestations across multiple application domains and academic disciplines. While significant progress has been made throughout the last several decades, including a flurry ...

Learning & Earning in Africa: Evidence from Ghana∗

This paper investigates the sources of rising lifetime incomes in Ghana using both existing cross-section data and a new panel data set which allows us to measure earnings growth within jobs and to construct lifetime work histories for both wage employees and the selfemployed. In Ghana as elsewhere in sub-Saharan Africa the nonrural self-employed constitute the most rapidly growing part of the ...