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 regression discontinuity design. The results reveal that school starting …

This paper presents micro-econometric evidence on peer effects in adolescent smoking between classmates aged 15 …/16 years across 13 European countries. Both instrumental variables and school fixed effects are used for identification …. Omitting school fixed effects, as in some existing IV studies of peer effects, is shown to lead to substantial overestimates …

We estimate the causal impact of school smoking bans in Germany on the propensity and intensity of smoking. Using … representative longitudinal data, we use variation in state, year, age cohort, school track, and survey time for implementation of … such smoking bans to identify the effects of interest. The estimates from our multipledifferences approach show that six to …

In this paper, we examine the impact of school shootings on the human health and capital outcomes of middle and high … school student survivors as adults in their twenties and early thirties. Our data on school shooting events is from a recent …, comprehensive database of school shootings compiled by the Center for Homeland Defense and Security. The analytic dataset contains …

Although many students suffer from anxiety and depression, and often identify school pressure and concerns about their … futures as the main reasons for their worries, little is known about the consequences of a selective school environment on … students’ mental health. Using a regression discontinuity analysis in the largest Norwegian cities, we show that eligibility to …

We study the effects of school starting age on siblings' infant health. In Spain, children born in December start … maternal age is a plausible mechanism behind our estimated impacts of school starting age on infant health. … school a year earlier than those born the following January, despite being essentially the same age. We follow a regression …

In this paper we investigate the causal effect of years of schooling on health and health-related behavior in West … Germany. We apply an instrumental variables approach using as natural experiments several changes in compulsory schooling laws … weight problems for both sexes. On the other hand, we find little evidence for a causal effect of education on smoking …