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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...
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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 …-based survey of former Teach For America applicants. We estimate the effect of voluntary youth service using a sharp discontinuity …
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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...
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Peer Effects and Multiple Equilibria in the Risky Behavior of Friends
Card, David - 2011
We study social interactions in the risky behavior of best-friend pairs in the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health (Add Health). Focusing on friends who had not yet initiated a particular behavior (sex, smoking, marijuana use, truancy) by the first wave of the survey, we estimate...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013124547
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Youth Depression and Future Criminal Behavior
Anderson, D. Mark - 2012
While the contemporaneous association between mental health problems and criminal behavior has been explored in the literature, the long-term consequences of such problems, depression in particular, have received much less attention. Using data from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent...
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
measured by percentage body fat (PBF) and to assess the sensitivity of these effects to using conventional measures of youth … from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1997 and data on local fast-food restaurant advertising on television from … number of youth exposed to fast-food advertising on television but would still result in non-trivial reductions in obesity …
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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