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Teenagers affected by austerity-induced youth club closures performed 4% worse in exams at age 16 and became 14% more likely to commit crimes. Carmen Villa examines the impact of youth club closures on teen offending rates and educational outcomes.

Thanks a lot for the award BritishSpanishSociet, truly honoured! britishspanishsociety.org/meet-our-2024-…

🚨New entry in Policy Impacts on the effects of youth club closures in London. Thanks to Ellen, Mira, and the rest of the team. If you haven’t explored Policy Impacts yet, it’s a powerful tool for comparing MVPF calculations across policies. Check it out! policyimpacts.org/policy-impacts…

🍷📒🍷New column summarising our work on the effects of the Minimum Legal Drinking Age on educational outcomes on CEPR 🍷📒🍷 cepr.org/voxeu/columns/… Manuel Bagues Warwick Economics

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Evidence from #Spain shows that, where regions increased the minimum drinking age at different times, the higher minimum age reduced binge drinking and improved performance in academic tests. Manuel Bagues Carmen Villa ow.ly/aH7C50UKSuJ

NEW OPINION PIECE out today: 'Academic benefits of reducing teenage alcohol consumption' - by Manuel Bagues Warwick Economics and Carmen Villa Institute for Fiscal Studies. 'Raising the minimum legal drinking age can substantially enhance academic performance.' Read more: wol.iza.org/opinions/acade…

Raising legal drinking ages: An opportunity to improve European educational outcomes Manuel Bagues Manuel Bagues Warwick Economics Aalto University, Carmen Villa Carmen Villa Warwick Economics Institute for Fiscal Studies ow.ly/TXSR50UKSBW

Last week FIW - Research Centre International Economics organised its 17th conference on #InternationalEconomics at WU Vienna. We concratulate Edoardo Tolva and his co-authors for winning this year's Young Economist Award worth 1.000€ for their paper Oligopolies in Trade and Transportation

Nuffield Foundation “The EMA, which cost billions through the 2000s, did not have the hoped-for positive effects.” Read Jack Britton, Carmen Villa, Nick Ridpath and @benwaltmann’s report: ifs.org.uk/publications/s… Watch our 11am launch event: ifs.org.uk/events/did-edu… [10/10]

NEW #IFSWorkingPaper: The short- and long-run effects of paying disadvantaged teenagers to go to school by Jack Britton, Nick Ridpath, Carmen Villa & Ben Waltmann. Read here: ifs.org.uk/publications/s…

The next ViCE seminar is this Thursday, March 27, at 1pm ET. Carmen Villa will present: "The Effects of Youth Clubs on Education and Crime" More info: jenniferdoleac.com/vice-seminar/

Thanks so much EALE for this unforgettable week. All the more special to share it with and learn from talented Federica Meluzzi and Leonard Bocquet. Hoping there will be. more editions to come for future generations.

Any Econ PhD students at Harvard (or elsewhere in the U.S.) worried about visa status, the Institute for International Economic Studies has openings for PhD students who have completed their coursework and are at the dissertation stage, starting in the fall. Apply here: su.se/institute-for-…