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We use unique survey data linked to nearly a decade of administrative welfare data to examine the relationship between early marijuana use (at age 14 or younger) and young people's educational outcomes. We find evidence that early marijuana use is related to educational penalties that are...
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assistance if their parents have a history of receiving social assistance themselves. These young people also receive more … case of disability payments, payments for those with caring responsibilities, and parenting payments for single parents …. Disadvantage stemming from parents' poor labor market outcomes seems to be easier for young people to overcome. This suggests that …
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The claim that marriage is a venue for status exchange of achieved traits, like education, and ascribed attributes, notably race and ethnic membership, has regained traction in the social stratification literature. Most studies that consider status exchanges ignore birthplace as a social...
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Suspension from school is a commonly-used, yet controversial, school disciplinary measure. This paper uses unique survey data to estimate the impact of suspension on the educational outcomes of those suspended. It finds that while suspension is strongly associated with educational outcomes, the...
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on unusually rich panel data from the Longitudinal Survey of Australian Children in which information on child … development reported by parents and teachers is linked to each child's results on a national, standardized achievement test. We …
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-educated Australian-born mothers and fathers transfer separate and roughly equal educational advantages to their children, outcomes for …, intergenerational mobility in families with two highly-educated parents appears to be much the same for Australian-born and ESB families …
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