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Effects of Weight on Adolescent Educational Attainment
Kaestner, Robert - 2009
In this paper, we investigate the association between weight and adolescent's educational attainment, as measured by highest grade attended, highest grade completed, and drop out status. Data for the study came from the 1997 cohort of the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth (NLSY), which...
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The Effect of Single-Sex Education on Test Scores, School Completion, Arrests, and Teen Motherhood : Evidence from School Transitions
Jackson, C. Kirabo - 2016
In 2010, the Ministry of Education in Trinidad and Tobago converted 20 low-performing secondary schools from coeducational to single-sex. I exploit these conversions to identify the causal effect of single-sex schooling holding other school inputs constant. After also accounting for student...
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Fast-Food Restaurant Advertising on Television and Its Influence on Childhood Obesity
Chou, Shin-Yi - 2005
advertising on children and adolescents being overweight. The advertising measure used is the number of hours of spot television … reduce the number of overweight children ages 3-11 in a fixed population by 10 percent and would reduce the number of … produce smaller declines of between 3 and 5 percent in these outcomes but would impose lower costs on children and adults who …
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