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Inequality at Birth : Some Causes and Consequences
Currie, Janet - 2011
Recent research shows that health at birth is affected by many factors, including maternal education, behaviors, and participation in social programs. In turn, endowments at birth are predictive of adult outcomes, and of the outcomes of future generations. Exposure to environmental pollution is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013129227
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Investing in Our Young People
Cunha, Flavio - 2010
This paper reviews the recent literature on the production of skills of young persons. The literature features the multiplicity of skills that explain success in a variety of life outcomes. Noncognitive skills play a fundamental role in successful lives. The dynamics of skill formation reveal...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013140990
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The Impact of Youth Service on Future Outcomes : Evidence from Teach for America
Dobbie, Will - 2011
Nearly one million American youth have participated in service programs such as Peace Corps and Teach For America. This paper provides the first causal estimate of the impact of service programs on those who serve, using data from a web-based survey of former Teach For America applicants. We...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013120306
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High-School Exit Examinations and the Schooling Decisions of Teenagers : a Multi-Dimensional Regression-Discontinuity Analysis
Papay, John P. - 2011
We ask whether failing one or more of the state-mandated high-school exit examinations affects whether students graduate from high school. Using a new multi-dimensional regression-discontinuity approach, we examine simultaneously scores on mathematics and English language arts tests. Barely...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013123983
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Peer Effects and Multiple Equilibria in the Risky Behavior of Friends
Card, David - 2011
Adolescent Health (Add Health). Focusing on friends who had not yet initiated a particular behavior (sex, smoking, marijuana use … initiation of risky behavior by adolescent friends exhibit significant interaction effects. The likelihood that one friend …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013124547
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Youth Depression and Future Criminal Behavior
Anderson, D. Mark - 2012
from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health, we examine the effect of depression during adolescence on the … to account for baseline differences in criminal behavior. We find little evidence that adolescent depression predicts the …-bound economic cost of property crime associated with adolescent depression is about 219 million dollars annually …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013096015
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Fast-Food Restaurant Advertising on Television and its Influence on Youth Body Composition
Grossman, Michael - 2012
We examine the effects of fast-food restaurant advertising on television on the body composition of adolescents as measured by percentage body fat (PBF) and to assess the sensitivity of these effects to using conventional measures of youth obesity based on body-mass index (BMI). We merge...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013096133
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Smart Machines and Long-Term Misery
Sachs, Jeffrey D. - 2012
Are smarter machines our children's friends? Or can they bring about a transfer from our relatively unskilled children to ourselves that leaves our children and, indeed, all our descendants - worse off? This, indeed, is the dire message of the model presented here in which smart machines...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013096141
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The Role of Federal and State Dependent Coverage Eligibility Policies on the Health Insurance Status of Young Adults
Cantor, Joel C. - 2012
This paper evaluates one of the first implemented provisions of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) which permits young adults up to age 26 to enroll as dependents on a parent's private health plan. The paper also considers how the interaction between prior state laws expanding...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013103057
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Estimating the Effects of Friendship Networks on Health Behaviors of Adolescents
Fletcher, Jason M. - 2012
This paper estimates the effects of friends' health behaviors, smoking and drinking, on own health behaviors for adolescents while controlling for the effects of correlated unobservables between those friends. Specifically, the effect of friends' health behaviors is identified by comparing...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013103058