Can Youth Empowerment Programs Reduce Violence against Girls during the COVID-19 Pandemic?
This paper shows that a youth empowerment program in Bolivia reduces the prevalence of violence against girls during the COVID-19 lockdown. The program offers training in soft skills and technical skills, sex education, mentoring, and job-finding a...
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| Format: | Working Paper |
| Language: | English |
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World Bank, Washington, DC
2021
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| Online Access: | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/498221613504523709/Can-Youth-Empowerment-Programs-Reduce-Violence-against-Girls-during-the-COVID-19-Pandemic http://hdl.handle.net/10986/35143 |
| Summary: | This paper shows that a youth
empowerment program in Bolivia reduces the prevalence of
violence against girls during the COVID-19 lockdown. The
program offers training in soft skills and technical skills,
sex education, mentoring, and job-finding assistance. To
measure the effects of the program, the study conducts a
randomized control trial with 600 vulnerable adolescents.
The results indicate that seven months after its completion,
the program increased girls' earnings and decreased
violence targeting females. Violence is measured with both
direct self-report questions and list experiments. These
findings suggest that empowerment programs can reduce the
level of violence experienced by young females during
high-risk periods. |
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