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Fat and out in Salerno and Province: adolescent obesity and early school leaving in Southern Italy

Barone, Adriana; O'Higgins, Niall - 2009

Salerno in Southern Italy. A simple human capital investment model is employed and this provides a framework within which to …

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A socio-economic analysis of youth disconnectedness

Pfeiffer, Friedhelm; Seiberlich, Ruben R. - 2010

Disconnectedness among youth can have several dimensions. From a socio-economic viewpoint, failure in school …, unemployment and the lack of an intimate relationship are among the most important ones. In our samples from SOEP youth … followed by increases in the number of disconnected youth. …

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A socio-economic analysis of youth disconnectedness

Pfeiffer, Friedhelm; Seiberlich, Ruben R. - 2009

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A Socio-Economic Analysis of Youth Disconnectedness

Pfeiffer, Friedhelm; Seiberlich, Ruben R. - 2010

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School Entry Age Policy and Adolescent Risk–Taking

Lopez-Mayan, Cristina; Montresor, Giulia; Nicodemo, Catia - 2024

This paper investigates the impact of the school entry age policy on adolescent risk–taking behaviors. The policy mandates that children begin primary education in the year they turn six, creating relative age differences within cohorts due to a January 1st cutoff date. Using data from the...

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School performance and child labor: Evidence from West Bank schools

Hallaq, Sameh; Khalifah, Ayman - 2022

The current study aims to investigate the impact of academic achievement on child labor. The study utilizes survey data collected from Palestinian children in West Bank schools who are in the primary grades (5th-9th). The results show that increasing a child's academic achievement is...

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Improvements in Schooling Opportunities and Teen Births

Garcez, Lucas N.; Padilla-Romo, María; Peluffo, Cecilia; … - 2024

We study the causal relationship between educational attainment and teenage birth rates by focusing on a large-scale, country-wide reform that made high school compulsory and removed previously existing school capacity constraints in Mexico. Relying on administrative data on schools and births,...

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Birth weight and the dynamics of early cognitive and behavioural development

Del Bono, Emilia; Ermisch, John - 2009

In this paper we explore the impact of birth weight on children's cognitive and behavioural outcomes using data from the UK Millennium Cohort Study. In order to deal with the endogeneity of birth weight we use an estimator based on the eliminant method. When coupled with ordinary least squares,...

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Do population control policies induce more human capital investment? : Twins, birthweight, and China's one child policy

Rosenzweig, Mark Richard; Zhang, Junsen - 2006

In this paper we use a new data set describing households with and without twin children in China to quantify the trade-off between the quality and quantity of children using the incidence of twins that for the first time takes into account effects associated with the lower birthweight and...

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Do population control policies induce more human capital investment? Twins, birthweight, and China's 'one child' policy

Rosenzweig, Mark Richard; Zhang, Junsen - 2006

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