Best Selling Books by Jenny Williams

This richly illustrated volume is the first complete atlas of coffee production in Ethiopia, birth-place of coffee drinking and the main home of wild arabica coffee (Coffea arabica). Around 15 million Ethiopians are coffee farmers, and Ethiopia is Africa''s largest coffee producer and one of the most important coffee-growing regions of the world, renowned for its diversity of flavour profiles, including those of the celebrated coffees of Harar, Limu, Sidamo, and Yirgacheffe. The aim of the Coffee Atlas of Ethiopia is to inform the reader about the coffee landscape of Ethiopia. It shows where coffee is grown, where the natural coffee forests are located, and where coffee could be grown. The atlas maps are accompanied by information on coffee farming, environment and climate, and a description of the main coffee areas. Also included in the atlas are key coffee origins, coffee towns and coffee delivery centres, as well as other useful items. The atlas can be used to assess the potential and vulnerability for coffee farming in Ethiopia, as well as provide a logistics resource for the coffee sector and those otherwise working with, or interested in, coffee. It is also an essential reference for resource managers.

This paper investigates the effect of delinquency in youth on subsequent educational attainment. To do so, we focus on delinquent acts committed by age 16 and examine their impact on two measures of educational attainment: high school graduation and college graduation. Using information on males from the extremely rich National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1997, we find plausible evidence that delinquency by age 16 reduces the likelihood of graduating from high school and college. This effect is driven by early initiators, those who offend intensely, and by those whose delinquent activities involve income generating acts. Importantly, the impact of delinquency on education is not confined to those who have interaction with the criminal justice system, or gang members. Further analysis suggests that a mechanism through which delinquency impacts on education is expected returns to crime, as reflected by subjective beliefs about the probability of arrest for a property crime. This effect is stronger for those of higher ability and is robust to accounting for attitude to risk.

The story of two children who enter the fairy tale world of Cinderella, the Ugly Sisters and a handsome prince.

We study the impact of early cannabis use on the school to work transition of young men. Our empirical approach accounts for common unobserved confounders that jointly affect selection into cannabis use and the transition from school to work using a multivariate mixed proportional hazard framework in which unobserved heterogeneities are drawn from a discrete mixing distribution. Extended models account for school leavers'' option of returning to school rather than starting work as a competing risk. We find that early cannabis use leads young men to accept job offers more quickly and at a lower wage rate compared to otherwise similar males who did not use cannabis. These effects are present only for those who use cannabis for longer than a year before leaving school. Overall, our findings are consistent with a mechanism whereby early non-experimental cannabis use leads to greater impatience in initial labor market decision-making.

In May 1969, seven assisted migrants stepped out of the plane that had touched down in a strange place called Hobart. Jenny Williams, the author of Yenni, was one of those adults. From this time on little of what Jenny and her family knew was of any use to them. Like newborns they had to learn to exist in a different world. From factory to restaurant work, to new relationships, "After the Plane Landed" takes the reader into the rich heart of a hard-working family searching for their niche in life.

This paper explores the Inquiry into Lifelong Learning''s theme of prosperity, employment and work and its implications for lifelong learning. Part of the IFLL Thematic Paper series, this paper explores the Inquiry''s theme of prosperity, employment and work and its implications for lifelong learning. It examines the evidence on learning for work, locates it in the context of strategies for prosperity, employment and good work, and identifies the implications for the creation of an overall strategic framework for lifelong learning. The bestselling full report of the Inquiry is also available: Learning through Life: Inquiry into the Future for Lifelong Learning (ISBN 9781862014336).

Large differences in fertility between women with high and low levels of education suggest that schooling may have a direct impact on knowledge and use of contraception. We investigate this issue using information on women in Mexico. In order to identify the causal effect of schooling, we exploit temporal and geographic variation in the number of lower secondary schools built following the extension of compulsory education in Mexico from 6th to 9th grade in 1993. We show that raising females'' schooling beyond 6th grade increases their knowledge of contraception during their reproductive years and increases their propensity to use contraception at sexual debut. This indicates that the impact of schooling on women''s wellbeing extends beyond improved labor market outcomes and includes greater autonomy over their fertility.

Ever lost someone you loved? Then had to move in with someone you hardly know? Even if you''re related? Who actually lives on the other side of the world? Which then forces you to move, to start a new school, and become a whole new you? I have. Hi, my name is Ruby and I''m a fourteen-year-old girl from the year 2025. Unfortunately I can''t just give you the all answers to these questions. Otherwise you won''t read my journal or diary or whatever you want to call this. Personally I''d love to tell you the answers, but I think the author would be upset if you just read the back cover or the inside cover (depending on where she puts this). So go ahead. Open it up. Start on the first page and see where it takes you. You might like my life. Or you might think it''s boring. You tell me.