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Heterogeneous peer effects under endogenous selection : an application to local and migrant children in elementary schools in Shanghai
Chen, Yuanyuan; Feng, Shuaizhang; Yang, Chao - 2022
local students in Shanghai, where local students all go to public schools, but migrant students are endogenously selected … all student groups. We conduct policy experiments to examine the effect of transferring migrant students from private …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012814374
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Genetic risks, adolescent health and schooling attainment
Amin, Vikesh; Behrman, Jere R.; Fletcher, Jason; … - 2020
We provide new evidence on the effect of adolescent health behaviors/outcomes (obesity, depression, smoking, and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD)) on schooling attainment using the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent to Adult Health. We take two different approaches to deal...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012239296
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A simple nudge increases socioeconomic diversity in undergraduate economics
Pugatch, Todd; Schroeder, Elizabeth - 2021
. We randomly assigned over 2,200 students a message with basic information about the Economics major; the basic message … increased the proportion of first generation and underrepresented minority (URM) students majoring in Economics by five … percentage points. This effect size was sufficient to reverse the gap in Economics majors between first generation/URM students …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012520536
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Nudging study habits : a field experiment on peer tutoring in higher education
Wilson, Nicholas; Pugatch, Todd - 2017
More than two of every five students who enrolled in college in 2007 failed to graduate by 2013. Peer tutoring services …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012114037
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Mental health, schooling attainment and polygenic scores : are there significant gene-environment associations?
Amin, Vikesh; Behrman, Jere R.; Fletcher, Jason; … - 2019
It is well-established that (1) there is a large genetic component to mental health, and (2) higher schooling attainment is associated with better mental health. Given these two observations, we test the hypothesis that schooling may attenuate the genetic predisposition to poor mental health....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012152213