TY - BOOK ID - 137601381 TI - Can Youth Empowerment Programs Reduce Violence against Girls during the COVID-19 Pandemic? AU - Gulesci, Selim. AU - Beccar, Manuela Puente. AU - Ubfal, Diego. PY - 2021 PB - Washington, D.C. : The World Bank, DB - UniCat KW - Africa Gender Policy KW - Coronavirus KW - COVID-19 KW - Education KW - Education For All KW - Employment and Unemployment KW - Gender KW - Gender Innovation Lab KW - Labor Markets KW - Lockdown KW - Pandemic Impact KW - Social Cohesion KW - Social Conflict and Violence KW - Social Development KW - Violence Against Children KW - Violence Against Girls KW - Violence Against Women KW - Youth Employment Program KW - Youth Empowerment UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:137601381 AB - 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. ER -