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The effect of personality traits on subject choice and performance in high school : evidence from an English cohort
Mendolia, Silvia; Walker, Ian - 2014
This paper investigates the relationship between personality traits in adolescence and performance in high school using … control for a rich set of adolescent and family characteristics and we find that personality traits do affect study choices … subjects' choices and, the unobservables that influence personality. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010370100
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The effect of personality traits on subject choice and performance in high school : evidence from an English cohort
Mendolia, Silvia; Walker, Ian - In: Economics of education review 43 (2014), pp. 47-65
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010516796
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The effect of personality traits on subject choice and performance in high school : evidence from an English cohort
Mendolia, Silvia; Walker, Ian - 2014
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012171427
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Genetic risks, adolescent health and schooling attainment
Amin, Vikesh; Behrman, Jere R.; Fletcher, Jason; … - 2020
We provide new evidence on the effect of adolescent health behaviors/outcomes (obesity, depression, smoking, and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD)) on schooling attainment using the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent to Adult Health. We take two different approaches to deal...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012239296
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The Effect of Personality Traits on Subject Choice and Performance in High School : Evidence from an English Cohort
Mendolia, Silvia - 2014
This paper investigates the relationship between personality traits in adolescence and performance in high school using … control for a rich set of adolescent and family characteristics and we find that personality traits do affect study choices … subjects' choices and, the unobservables that influence personality …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013051789
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Peer Effects, Unobserved Factors and Risk Behaviours : An Analysis of Alcohol Abuse and Truancy Among Adolescents
Duarte, Rosa - 2007
The objective of this paper is to examine the factors which affect alcohol abuse and truancy among adolescents. We propose a new theoretical specification in which alcohol abuse and truancy appear as derived demands, given that they condition peer group and family acceptance, and we introduce...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012777596
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Kindergarten Entrance Age and Children's Achievement : Impacts of State Policies, Family Background, and Peers
Elder, Todd E.; Lubotsky, Darren H. - 2015
Using data from two cohorts of students, we present evidence that children who are relatively old when they enter kindergarten score higher on achievement tests and are less likely to repeat grades or suffer from learning disabilities than their younger classmates. These differences are driven...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014057088
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Genetic Risks, Adolescent Health and Schooling Attainment
Amin, Vikesh; Behrman, Jere; Fletcher, Jason M.; … - 2020
We provide new evidence on the effect of adolescent health behaviors/outcomes (obesity, depression, smoking, and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD)) on schooling attainment using the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent to Adult Health. We take two different approaches to deal...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014095637
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Dreaming big? : self-valuations, aspirations, networks and the private-school earnings premium
Green, Francis; Parsons, Samantha; Sullivan, Alice; … - In: Cambridge journal of economics 42 (2018) 3, pp. 757-778
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012050903
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The effects of grade retention on human capital accumulation
Solis, Alex - 2017 - This version: December 7th, 2017
. First, (marginally)retained students achieve the same amount of education than (marginally) promoted(i.e., high school … graduation, higher education enrollment, etc.). Second, they improve theircognitive ability (measured by test scores) in the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011773762