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Do you get what you pay for with school-based health programs? Evidence from a child nutrition experiment in rural China
Sylvia, Sean; Luo, Renfu; Zhang, Linxiu; Shi, Yaojiang; … - In: Economics of Education Review 37 (2013) C, pp. 1-12
increased school emphasis on health promotion affects academic performance. Although education and health promotion are … incentives to improve student health increase the impact of school-based programs on student health outcomes, but may also lead …
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The effects of school quality on long-term health
Sansani, Shahar - In: Economics of Education Review 30 (2011) 6, pp. 1320-1333
quantity of education to health outcomes, the effect of school quality on health has yet to be examined. I construct synthetic … birth cohorts and relate the quality of education they attained to their mortality rates. I find that there is a … standard deviation results in about 1.9 less deaths per 1000 people per extra year of education. My results suggest that one …
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The willingness to pay to reduce school bullying
Persson, Mattias; Svensson, Mikael - In: Economics of Education Review 35 (2013) C, pp. 1-11
The number of programs used to reduce bullying in schools is increasing, but often with a lack of understanding of the effectiveness and monetary benefits. This paper uses a discrete choice experiment conducted in Sweden in the spring of 2010 to elicit the willingness to pay (WTP) to reduce...
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Does more schooling improve health outcomes and health related behaviors? Evidence from U.K. twins
Amin, Vikesh; Behrman, Jere R.; Spector, Tim D. - In: Economics of Education Review 35 (2013) C, pp. 134-148
estimated the causal effect of schooling on health outcomes and health-related behaviors in the U.K. Despite using the same … health outcomes (obesity and physical health) and health-related behaviors (smoking, alcohol consumption and exercise) for … women through within-MZ twins estimates using the TwinsUK database. For physical health, alcohol consumption and exercise …
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Evidence on the efficacy of school-based incentives for healthy living
Cuffe, H.E.; Harbaugh, W.T.; Lindo, J.M.; Musto, G.; … - In: Economics of Education Review 31 (2012) 6, pp. 1028-1036
We analyze the effects of a school-based program that offers children an opportunity to win prizes if they walk or bike to school during prize periods. We use daily child-level data and individual fixed effects models to measure the effect of the prizes, with variation in the timing of prize...
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Gender gaps in primary school achievement
Golsteyn, Bart H.H.; Schils, Trudie - In: Economics of Education Review 41 (2014) C, pp. 176-187
In elementary school, girls typically outperform boys in languages and boys typically outperform girls in math. The determinants of these differences have remained largely unexplored. Using rich data from Dutch elementary schools, we decompose the differences in achievement into gender...
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Disruptive school peers and student outcomes
Kristoffersen, Jannie Helene Grøne; Krægpøth, Morten … - In: Economics of Education Review 45 (2015) C, pp. 1-13
This paper estimates how peers’ achievement gains are affected by the presence of potentially disruptive and emotionally sensitive children in the school-cohort. We exploit that some children move between schools and thus generate variation in peer composition in the receiving school-cohort....
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Does competition improve public school efficiency? A spatial analysis
Misra, Kaustav; Grimes, Paul W.; Rogers, Kevin E. - In: Economics of Education Review 31 (2012) 6, pp. 1177-1190
Advocates for educational reform frequently call for policies to increase competition between schools because it is argued that market forces naturally lead to greater efficiencies, including improved student learning, when schools face competition. Researchers examining this issue are...
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Why women are progressive in education? Gender disparities in human capital, labor markets, and family arrangement in the Philippines
Yamauchi, Futoshi; Tiongco, Marites - In: Economics of Education Review 32 (2013) C, pp. 196-206
This paper shows mutually consistent evidence to support female advantage in education and disadvantage in labor … level of schooling investments in daughters. Because wage penalty to females in labor markets means that education is … relatively important as a determinant of their earnings, parental investments in their daughters’ education has larger impacts on …
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Family background variables as instruments for education in income regressions: A Bayesian analysis
Hoogerheide, Lennart; Block, Joern H.; Thurik, Roy - In: Economics of Education Review 31 (2012) 5, pp. 515-523
The validity of family background variables instrumenting education in income regressions has been much criticized. In … the 95% posterior interval for the effect of education on income. Thus, a violation of the strict validity assumption does …
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