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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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Why so slow? : the school-to-work transition in Italy

Pastore, Francesco - 2017

with slow economic growth, rather than the supposedly low degree of labor market flexibility explain high (youth … youth long term unemployed, the so-called Good School and the related introduction of work-related learning, the European … Youth Guarantee and the reform of employment services - have been all recently implemented, which are causing a slow …

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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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You drink, you drive, you die? : the dynamics of youth risk taking in response to a change in the legal drinking age

Boes, Stefan; Stillman, Steven - 2017

This paper exploits the reduction in the legal drinking age in New Zealand from 20 to 18 to study the dynamics of youth … youth. First, using an event history approach, we find no evidence that changing the drinking age from 20 to 18 led to more … youth who were already 15 at the time of the change but had no longer-run impacts. Overall, our results support the argument …

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A teenager in love : multidimensional human capital and teenage pregnancy in Ghana

Blunch, Niels-Hugo - 2017

I examine teenage pregnancy in Ghana, focusing on the role and interplay of Ghanaian and English reading skills, formal educational attainment, and adult literacy program participation. Pursuing several alternative identification strategies three main results are established. First, I confirm...

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The temporal stability of children's neighborhood experiences : a follow-up from birth to age 15

Kleinepier, Tom; Ham, Maarten van - 2017

Despite increasing attention being paid to the temporal dynamics of childhood disadvantage, children's neighborhood characteristics are often measured at a single point in time. Whether such cross-sectional measures serve as reliable proxies for children's long-run neighborhood conditions...

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Adults behaving badly : the effects of own and peer parents' incarceration on adolescent criminal activities

Fletcher, Jason - 2017

crime as well as peer effects that determine youth criminal activities. This paper explores these channels by examining … reverse is true for peer paternal incarceration. These effects are strongest for youth reports of selling drugs and engaging …

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The effects of minimum wages on the health of working teenagers

Averett, Susan; Smith, Julie K.; Yang Wang - 2016

This paper examines the effect of minimum wage increases on the self-reported health of teenage workers. We use a difference-in-differences estimation strategy and data from the Current Population Survey, and disaggregate the sample by race/ethnicity and gender to uncover the differential...

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Impact of hospital delivery on child mortality : an analysis of adolescent mothers in Bangladesh

Pal, Sarmistha - 2015

The present paper provides new evidence that hospital delivery can significantly lower child mortality risks, especially among vulnerable young adolescent mothers in Bangladesh. We exploit the exogenous variation in community's access to local health facilities (both traditional and modern)...

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Mozart or Pelé? : the effects of teenagers' participation in music and sports

Cabane, Charlotte; Hille, Adrian; Lechner, Michael - 2015

Using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel, this paper analyses the effects of spending part of adolescents' leisure time on playing music or doing sports, or both. We find that while playing music fosters educational outcomes compared to doing sports, particularly so for girls and children...

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