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Catholic Schools and Bad Behavior
Tekin, Erdal; Scafidi, Benjamin; Mocan, H. Naci - 2002
Although there is a sizeable literature of the effect of private school attendance on academic student outcomes, there is a dearth of studies of the impact of school sector on nonacademic outcomes. Using a rich data set, we analyze the impact of Catholic school attendance on the likelihood that...
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Might not be a tomorrow: a multi-methods approach to anticipated early death and youth crime
Brezina, Timothy; Tekin, Erdal; Topalli, Volkan - 2008
factor to youth crime and violence. Young people who perceive a high probability of early death, it is argued, may have … early death and youth crime, this support remains tentative. Moreover, a number of questions remain regarding the … that link anticipated early death to youth crime. In this paper, we address the limitations of previous studies using a …
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The implications of cultural background on labour market choices: The case of religion and entrepreneurship
Nunziata, Luca; Rocco, Lorenzo - 2011
religious denomination on labour market outcomes, by estimating the differential impact of Protestantism versus Catholicism on … increasing the chances to be an entrepreneur by around 3% with respect to Catholicism. Our findings, stable across a number of …
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School Choice and Quality
Checchi, Daniele; Jappelli, Tullio - 2003
The 1993 Survey of Household Income and Wealth, a representative survey of the Italian population covering 24,000 individuals, reports detailed information on children attendance of public and private schools and parents? self-assessment of the quality of public schools in the city of residence....
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School competition and students' entrepreneurial intentions: International evidence using historical Catholic roots of private schooling
Falck, Oliver; Woessmann, Ludger - 2010
School choice research mostly focuses on academic outcomes. Policymakers increasingly view entrepreneurial traits as a non-cognitive outcome important for economic growth. We use international PISA-2006 student-level data to estimate the effect of private-school competition on students'...
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Every catholic child in a catholic school: historical resistance to state schooling, contemporary private competition, and student achievement across countries
West, Martin R.; Wößmann, Ludger - 2008
Nineteenth-Century Catholic doctrine strongly opposed state schooling. We show that countries with larger shares of Catholics in 1900 (but without a Catholic state religion) tend to have larger shares of privately operated schools even today. We use this historical pattern as a natural...
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Adolescent drug use and the deterrent effect of school-imposed penalties
Waddell, Glen R. - 2010
Simple OLS estimates of the effect of school-imposed penalties for drug use on a student's consumption of marijuana are biased if both are determined by unobservable school or individual attributes. The potential reverse causality is also a challenge to retrieving estimates of the causal...
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Re-examining the impact of dropping out on criminal and labor outcomes in early adulthood
Bjerk, David - 2011
This paper shows that while high school dropouts fare far worse on average than otherwise similar high school completers in early adulthood outcomes such as success in the labor market and future criminal activity, there are important differences within this group of dropouts. Notably, those who...
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Youth depression and future criminal behavior
Anderson, D. Mark; Cesur, Resul; Tekin, Erdal - 2012
childhood depression and adult criminality. One novelty in our approach is the estimation of school and sibling fixed effects …
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Wage growth and job mobility in the early career: Testing a statistical discrimination model of the gender wage gap
Belley, Philippe; Havet, Nathalie; Lacroix, Guy - 2012
tested using data from the 1979 cohort of the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth. As predicted by our statistical …
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