well-being and the influence by the socio-spatial contexts: family, school and living environment. A simultaneous testing …

While existing research supports that participation in high-school athletics is associated with better education and … public-school district to retrieve an estimate of the causal effect of high-school athletic participation on absenteeism. We … - truancy among active male athletes declines significantly, with the effects larger in earlier grades and for black and …

targeting school absences was most effective in reducing the truancy of adolescents with relatively risk-averse parents. … find that adolescent preferences do not predict school attendance and that a unique police-school partnership program …

This paper investigates the relationship between educational attainment and truancy. Using data from the Youth Cohort … Study of England and Wales, we estimate the causal impact that truancy has on educational attainment at age 16. Problematic … is that both truancy and attainment are measured as ordered responses requiring a bivariate ordered probit model to …

Being the first born of a family entails inherent responsibilities. Sociologists, psychologists and economists have …

1,000,000 children born in Denmark between 1981 and 2010. Using family fixed effects models, we find a positive and …

, by examining the relation with years of education for different family sizes separately; this avoids the problem that … estimated effects confound birth order with family size. No significant effect of the number of children on educational …

stringent disciplinary environments in response to their earlier-born children's poor performance in school in order to deter … such outcomes for their later-born offspring. We provide robust empirical evidence that school performance of children in …