Implications for Youth Livelihoods Programming

Evidence from YouthSave Ghana
Policy Paper
Aug. 25, 2016

This 3-page brief distills the findings of an analysis of treatment youth in the Ghana Experiment to understand, in the context of an opportunity to open/transact in a savings account, what factors facilitate better psychosocial, educational, and financial capability outcomes for treatment youth – factors including youth characteristics such as age, gender, and grade level, or environmental characteristics such as location, household living conditions, and household wealth.