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Adolescent Cognitive and Non-cognitive Correlates of Adult Health

Kaestner, Robert - 2009

associations with adult health. Net of adolescent influences, completed education has a significant association with adult health …

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Mental Health in Childhood and Human Capital

Currie, Janet - 2007

income and maternal education. We find that mental health conditions, and especially ADHD, have large negative effects on … future test scores and schooling attainment, regardless of family income and maternal education …

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Mother's Education and the Intergenerational Transmission of Human Capital : Evidence from College Openings and Longitudinal Data

Currie, Janet - 2002

We estimate the effect of maternal education on birth outcomes using data from the Vital Statistics Natality files for … 1970 to 1999. We also assess the importance of four potential channels through which maternal education may improve birth … education on changes in birth outcomes. Second, we have compiled a new data set on openings of two and four year colleges …

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Are Brothers Really Better? Sibling Sex Composition and Educational Achievement Revisited

Kaestner, Robert - 1996

In this paper, I examine the relationship between sibling sex composition and educational achievement. First, I replicate the study of Butcher and Case (1994) using data on a more recent birth cohort. Contrary to the findings of that study, I find basically no effect of sibling sex composition...

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