Youth Development: Peer Reviewed Articles
- How Do Summer Youth Employment Programs Improve Criminal Justice Outcomes, and for Whom? Journal of Policy Analysis and Management.
- This publication researches the impact of Summer Youth Employment Programs (SYEPs) on crime. Measured through arraignments in the year and a half following the conclusion of the programs, this study found that SYEPs reduced violent crime by 35% over the trial period.
- School’s Out: How Summer Youth Employment Programs Impact Academic Outcomes. Education Finance and Policy.
- Studying disadvantaged youth that take part in SYEPs, this study investigates the impact of their participation on their academic performance. Finding that youth who participated were 4.4% more likely to graduate than their peers, with consistency in attendance and participation improving individual outcomes, this study concludes that SYEP participation is conducive to academic achievement.
- What’s In a Job? Evaluating the Effect of Private Sector Job Experience on Students’ Academic Outcomes. AEA Papers and Proceedings.
- Looking into a subset of SYEP participants, those who were employed in the private sector, this study investigates their academic achievement in relation to their private sector SYEP experience.
- Reducing Inequality Summer by Summer: Lessons from the Boston Summer Youth Employment Program Survey. Evaluation and Program Planning.
- There has been rising concern about unemployed youth, spurring research into and initiatives supporting youth employment. Inquiring into Boston’s SYEP, Dr. Modestino measures the impacts of SYEPs on reducing inequality between youth of different demographics; namely, those with access and ability to take advantage of unpaid opportunities and those without.
- Assessing the Effectiveness of Financial Coaching: Evidence from the Boston Youth Credit Building Initiative. Journal of Consumer Affairs.
- Examining the impact of the Boston Youth Credit-Building Initiative, this study looks into the financial outcomes of youth who received financial coaching and those who did not. Through control and trial groups, this study found the trial group 10% more likely to have credit access than the control, and 26% more likely in the 18 months following coaching completion.