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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...

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Does class size matter for school tracking outcomes after elementary school? : quasi-experimental evidence using administrative panel data from Germany

Argaw, Bethlehem Asres; Puhani, Patrick A. - 2017

We use administrative panel data on about a quarter of a million students in the German state of Hesse to estimate the … quasi-random assignment of students to different class sizes based on maximum class size rules. In Germany, students are … actual choice to attend the more academic middle school type. For male students, we find that an increase in class size by 10 …

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