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What is a peer? : the role of network definitions in estimation of endogenous peer effects
Halliday, Timothy J. (contributor); Kwak, Sally (contributor) - 2008
that alters the peer group mix at the classroom or cohort level. -- Peer effects ; education ; adolescent health …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003656911
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What is a peer? : the role of network definitions in estimation of endogenous peer effects
Halliday, Timothy J.; Kwak, Sally - In: Applied economics 44 (2012) 1/3, pp. 289-302
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Unlucky to be young? : the long-term effects of school starting age on smoking behaviour and health
Bahrs, Michael; Schumann, Mathias - 2016
In this study, we analyse the long-term effects of school starting age on smoking behaviour and health in adulthood. School entry rules combined with birth month are used as an instrument for school starting age. The analysis adopts the German Socio-Economic Panel data and employs a fuzzy...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011533515
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The Health Returns to Education - What can we learn from Twins?
Lundborg, Petter - 2008
This paper estimates the health returns to education, using data on identical twins. I adopt a twin … both education and health. I further investigate to what extent within-twin-pair differences in schooling correlates with … education on health. Higher educational levels are found to be positively related to self-reported health but negatively related …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010325854
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The health returns to education: what can we learn from twins?
Lundborg, Petter - 2008
This paper estimates the health returns to education, using data on identical twins. I adopt a twin … both education and health. I further investigate to what extent within-twin-pair differences in schooling correlates with … education on health. Higher educational levels are found to be positively related to self-reported health but negatively related …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010268848
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Education, health and wages
Heckman, James J.; Humphries, John Eric; Veramendi, Gregory - 2014
responses to education and find evidence for substantial heterogeneity in unobserved variables on which agents make choices. The … estimated treatment effects of education are decomposed into the direct benefits of attaining a given level of schooling and … estimated treatment effects. While the estimated causal effects of education are substantial for most outcomes, we also estimate …
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Rank, sex, drugs, and crime
Elsner, Benjamin; Isphording, Ingo Eduard - 2015
In this paper we show that a student's ordinal rank in a high school cohort is an important determinant of engaging in risky behaviors. Using longitudinal data from representative US high schools, and exploiting idiosyncratic variation in the cohort composition within a school, we find a strong...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011386816
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Sibling spillovers and the choice to get vaccinated : evidence from a regression discontinuity design
Humlum, Maria Knoth; Morthorst, Marius Opstrup; … - 2022
We investigate the effects of the introduction of a population-wide Human Papillomavirus (HPV) vaccination program on the vaccine take-up of the targeted group of 15-year-old girls and their older sisters. For identification, we rely on a regression discontinuity design and high-quality Danish...
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Peer gender and mental health
Getik, Demid; Meier, Armando N. - 2020
Adolescent mental health is key for later well-being. Yet, causal evidence on environmental drivers of adolescent mental health is scant. We study how an important classroom feature - the gender composition in compulsory-school - affects mental health. We use Swedish administrative data...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012309783
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Education and health : long-run effects of peers, tracking and years
Fischer, Martin; Gerdtham, Ulf-G.; Heckley, Gawain; … - 2019
We investigate two parallel school reforms in Sweden to assess the long-run health effects of education. One reform …
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