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progress. Maternal education and mental health, family income, and major adverse life events, are all significant in explaining …
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education and to what extent those mitigate the long-run effects. We use individual records of Swedish birth cohorts from 1915 … direct biological mechanisms. We do not find evidence of indirect pathways through ability or education, and the long …-run effects are not mitigated by education …
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The objective of this paper is to examine the factors which affect alcohol abuse and truancy among adolescents. We propose a new theoretical specification in which alcohol abuse and truancy appear as derived demands, given that they condition peer group and family acceptance, and we introduce...
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-effect estimates show that college education is associated with fewer depressive symptoms in both datasets …
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This paper investigates the relationship between personality traits in adolescence and performance in high school using … control for a rich set of adolescent and family characteristics and we find that personality traits do affect study choices … subjects' choices and, the unobservables that influence personality …
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Seasonal pollen allergies affect approximately 1 in 5 school age children. Clinical research has established that these allergies result in large and consistent decrements in cognitive functioning, problem solving ability and speed, focus and energy. However, the impact of seasonal allergies on...
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This article explores the impact of grandparents' supervision time input relative to the effect of parents' childcare provision on children's cognitive, social and behavioral development at an early age. We identify the effects of interest through panel data estimation methods. The findings...
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The prevalence of school-based healthcare has increased markedly over the past decade. We study a modern mode of school-based healthcare, telemedicine, that offers the potential to reach places and populations with historically low access to such care. School-based telemedicine clinics (SBTCs)...
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This paper investigates the relationship between personality traits in adolescence and education and labour market … show that personality traits do affect education and employment choices. We test the robustness of our results using the … - perseverance) on the risk of youths being NEET – "Not in Education, Employment or Training". Thus, our focus is on early drop …
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this paper is to analyze previouslyunconsidered characteristics, in particular, personality traits and tasks performed at …
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