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La Meglio Gioventù : earnings gaps across generations and skills in Italy

Naticchioni, Paolo; Raitano, Michele; Vittori, Claudia - 2014

skill-biased literature, our results surprisingly show that the Italian "best of youth", i.e. the best workers of the most …

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The impact of early childbearing on schooling and cognitive skills among young women in Madagascar

Herrera, Catalina; Sahn, David E. - 2015

Female secondary school attendance has recently increased in Sub-Saharan Africa and so has the risk of becoming pregnant while attending school. Using panel data in Madagascar, we analyze the impact of teenage pregnancy on young women's human capital. We instrument early pregnancy with the young...

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Causal effects of mental health treatment on education outcomes for youth in the justice system

Cuellar, Alison Evans; Dave, Dhaval - 2016

This study assesses whether mental health interventions can improve academic outcomes for justice-involved youth. Only … under which youth are assigned to behavioral treatment programs. The administrative data allow for a rich set of controls … for observed family- and youth-specific heterogeneity. In addition, the treatment assignment rules create discontinuous …

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Maternal age and offspring human capital in India

Pérez-Alvarez, Marcello; Favara, Marta - 2019

Early motherhood remains a widespread phenomenon in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). While the consequences of early motherhood for the mother have been extensively investigated, the impact on their children is severely understudied, especially in LMICs, which host 95% of teen births...

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The causal effects of adolescent school : bullying victimisation on later life outcomes

Gorman, Emma; Harmon, Colm; Mendolia, Silvia; Staneva, Anita - 2019

We use rich data on a cohort of English adolescents to analyse the long-term effects of experiencing bullying victimisation in junior high school. The data contain self-reports of five types of bullying and their frequency, for three waves of the data, when the pupils were aged 13 to 16 years....

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"O youth and beauty" : children's looks and children's cognitive development

Hamermesh, Daniel S.; Gordon, Rachel A.; Crosnoe, Robert - 2019

We use data from the 11 waves of the U.S. Study of Early Child Care and Youth Development 1991-2005, following children …

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The timing of puberty and gender differences in educational achievement

Koerselman, Kristian; Pekkarinen, Tuomas - 2017

In this paper, we study the effect of the timing of puberty on educational achievement and examine to what extent the gender differences in the timing of puberty can explain gender differences in achievement. We use British cohort data that combine information on pubertal development with test...

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Early health and school outcomes for children with lesbian parents : evidence from Sweden

Aldén, Lina; Björklund, Anders; Hammarstedt, Mats - 2017

Sweden was early to legalize same-sex partnership (1995), to allow same-sex couples to adopt children (2003), and to offer same-sex couples fertility treatment through the national health system (2005). Using population data, we identify children of lesbian parents as those whose biological...

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The inheritance of educational inequality among young people in developing countries

Pastore, Francesco; Roccisano, Federica - 2015

This letter provides new evidence on the extent of the inheritance of educational inequality in the eight developing countries (Azerbaijan, China, Egypt, Iran, Kosovo, Mongolia, Nepal, Syria) where the ILO carried out the first wave of School-to-Work Transition survey. We observe different...

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Do compulsory schooling laws always work? : a study of youth crime in Brazilian municipalities

Nishijima, Marislei; Pal, Sarmistha - 2020

We examine if compulsory schooling laws (CSL) necessarily lower crimes. We focus on violent youth crime (homicides by …

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