Former youth worker and journalist Neil Maggs looks at the fall and rise of the youth club

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Paying disadvantaged teenagers to stay in school slightly raises enrolment but does not improve qualifications or future job prospects

Paying disadvantaged teenagers to stay in school slightly raises enrolment but does not improve qualifications or future job prospects

Por Manuel Bagues y Carmen Villa A principios de los años ochenta España era, según los datos oficiales, el país del mundo con la mayor proporción de niños por niña al nacer, con unos 109 niños por c...

Official Spanish birth registry data report sex ratios well above expected levels between 1975 and 2000, peaking at 109 boys per 100 girls in the early 1980s, the highest in the world at that time. Pr...

Novel spatial data on London street gangs between 1990 and 2015 are combined with local housing characteristics to produce a newly constructed data source that shows how social housing and its architectural design relates to gang presence and neighbourhood crime. High-rise public housing estates built in the post-World War II era are much more likely to host gangs than areas without social housing. To address concerns that social housing was built in already high-crime areas, localised high-rise construction is shown to be predicted from spatial patterns of WWII bomb damage that occurred in the 1940-41 Blitz. Bomb-induced high-rise construction significantly raises gang presence and criminality, with there being especially high juvenile crime rates in gang areas.

Eine Studie der Universität Zürich zeigt: Strengere Alkoholgesetze senken den Konsum bei jungen Menschen – mit weitreichenden Folgen.

Teenage drinking remains widespread in Europe. To address concerns about its negative effects on health and cognition, many European countries have raised their minimum legal drinking age from 16 to 18 in recent decades. This column reports on evidence from Spain, where regions increased the minimum age at different times, which shows that the higher minimum age reduced binge drinking and improved performance in academic tests. The findings suggest that reducing teenage alcohol consumption represents a significant opportunity to improve educational outcomes in Europe.

The widespread closing of youth clubs during the 2010s, driven by government austerity measures, led to falling educational performance and increasing rates of youth offending. The long-term…