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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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Books or babies? : the incapacitation effect of schooling on minority women

Adamecz-Völgyi, Anna; Scharle, Ágota - 2020

This paper examines the effects of an increase in the compulsory school leaving age on the teenage fertility of Roma women, a disadvantaged ethnic minority in Hungary. We use a regression discontinuity design identification strategy and show that the reform decreased the probability of teenage...

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Home computer ownership and educational outcomes of adolescents in Greece

Djinovic, Vladana; Giannakopoulos, Nicholas - 2022

In this paper we investigate whether human capital accumulation, during adolescence, depends on home investments in Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) equipment. Using micro-level data, for children aged 17-18 years old, drawn from the Greek part of the European Union Statistics on...

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Parental unemployment and adolescents' academic performance

Drydakis, Nick - 2023

During the Great Recession, the increase in Greece's unemployment rate was the highest in the European Union. However, there exists no multivariate study which has assessed the association between parental unemployment and adolescents' grades. The study utilised panel data from the same upper...

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Effects of childhood peers on personality skills

Feng, Shuaizhang; Kim, Jun Hyung; Yang, Zhe - 2021

Despite extensive literature on peer effects, the role of peers on personality skill development remains poorly understood. We fill this gap by investigating the effects of having disadvantaged primary school peers, generated by random classroom assignment and parental migration for employment....

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Birth order effects, parenting style, and son preference

Kim, Jun Hyung; Wang, Shaoda - 2021

While it is well known that there are systematic birth order effects on life cycle outcomes, there is less consensus about underlying channels and mechanisms of birth order effects. We ftnd negative birth order effects among Chinese adolescents, favoring earlier-born children within household in...

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The impact of body mass index on growth, schooling, productivity, and savings : a cross-country study

Tansel, Aysıt; Öztürk, Ceyhan; Erdil, Erkan - 2021

We examine the relationship between wealth and health through prominent growth indicators and cognitive ability. Cognitive ability is represented by nutritional status. In this study, the proxy variable for nutritional status is BMI since there is a strong relationship between cognitive ability...

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Does schooling improve cognitive abilities at older ages? : causal evidence from nonparametric bounds

Amin, Vikesh; Behrman, Jere R.; Fletcher, Jason; … - 2022

ages using the Harmonized Cognition Assessment Protocol in the Health & Retirement Study. To address endogeneity concerns … on cognition. We also replicate findings from the Health & Retirement Study using another sample of older adults from the … Midlife in United States Development Study Cognition Project. …

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Health inequality among Chinese older adults : the role of childhood circumstances

Yan, Binjian; Chen, Xi; Gill, Thomas M. - 2020

This paper examines the extent to which childhood circumstances contribute to health inequality in old age and how the contributions may vary across key dimensions of health. We link the China Health and Retirement Longitudinal Study (CHARLS) in 2013 and 2015 with its Life History Survey in 2014...

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Parental migration, investment in children, and children's non-cognitive development : evidence from rural China

Jiang, Hanchen; Yang, Xi - 2019

Many children worldwide are left behind by parents who are migrating for work. While previous literature has studied the effect of parental migration on children's educational outcomes and cognitive achievements, this study focuses on how parental migration affects children's non-cognitive...

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