mathematics among early primary school children in Norway, a low testing environment. We examine two forms of testing, complex but …How much young children should be tested and graded is a highly contentious issue in education policy. Opponents … redeeming impact on educational performance. Others see early testing of children as a necessary instrument for identifying …

postprandial somnolence on cognitive capacities. Analyzing novel time use data on ~ 4,600 Indian adolescents and young adults, we …

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 globally (WHO, 2014). Using panel and sibling data from India, this paper … maternal age has an overall detrimental effect on offspring health and cognition. We show that children born to early mothers …

Children form social ties along dimensions of gender and race/ethnicity, and thus may differ greatly in exposure to … New York City (NYC) FITNESSGRAM initiative on over 1.6 million children in grades K-8, we find that males and females are …

moderating role of the academic pressures that these adolescents perceive. Even though we find robust evidence for a positive … addition, the facts that the benefits of PEE are greater for female adolescents and those from immigrant, one-child, and …

distress and non-cognitive skills development of adolescents; both self-reported and more objectively measured bio-measures are … non-cognitive skills development of adolescents living in the same household. However, considerable heterogeneity in these … link between parental health/disability and adolescents' mental distress. Our findings suggest that each parent's health …

developing countries. Few studies document the patterns and determinants of internal youth migration in sub-Saharan Africa … childhood socioeconomic determinants in later youth migration decisions to rural and urban areas. RESULTS: We find that young … areas for both men and women. CONTRIBUTION: We contribute to the sparse literature on internal youth migration in developing …

control policies on youth gun carrying or school violence. Using data from the Youth Risk Behavior Surveys (YRBS) for the … and gun carrying among high school students. Our results suggest that CAP laws are associated with a 13 percent decrease … or injured with a weapon on school property. In addition, we find that CAP laws are associated with a lagged decline in …

This paper aims to identify the causal effect of schooling on youth crime. To identify the causal effect, I use the … earthquake damage but with and without the policy interventions, I find that a higher high school participation rate reduces …

nurse per 1,000 school-age children before the reform there was an increase in the availability of nurses of 35% from the … differences in the availability of health professionals across municipalities and cohorts. In municipalities with one fewer school …